Kanhaiyalal actor biography examples
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(Usham Rojio, research scholar at the Theatre & Performance Studies Department at JNU’s School of Arts and Aethetics, remembers Manipur’s towering theatre personality Heisnam Kanhailal, who passed away on 6 October 2016.)
MANIPURI theatre legend Heisnam Kanhailal, who passed away recently, is best remembered for fusing instinctive physical movements with a hard-hitting political aesthetic. When I spoke to Ima Heisnam Sabitri (Heisnam Kanhailal’s wife and his collaborator as an actor) after the funeral of Oja Heisnam Kanhailal on 6th October 2016, Ima cried over the phone, “Your Oja has left me. How can I live without him?” It was not a ‘silent scream’ which Sabitri as an actress is best at on stage. Yet, it was a hard, real question. I have no answer to it. Perhaps, what the local theatre fraternity says must be true to some extent, “Kanhailal dreams and Sabitri transforms his dreams into action.” This brings into question the subtle relationship between directors and acto
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In 'I Have Done My Bhartiya-karan', Kanhaiyalal Kapoor asks what it takes to become Indian
This is the fourth in an eight-part series on Urdu fiction by contemporary Indian writers. Rakhshanda Jalil is the curator and translator for this series.
Part I: In ‘The Crocodile’, Gulzar tells a story of smoke and fire
Part II: In ‘Those Without Graves’, Joginder Paul blurs the lines between the living and dead
Part III: In ‘The Rape of an Abandoned House’, Deepak Budki lays bare the hunger of scavengers
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KANHAIYALAL KAPOOR (1910-1981): Kapoor’s best-known collection titled Sang-o-Khisht contained essays such as ‘Apne Watan Mein Sab Kuch Hai Pyare’ (‘We Have Everything in our Country, My Friend’) and ‘Qaumi Libas’ (‘National Dress’) – the latter was a spoof on the correspondence between Gandhi and Jinnah. Kapoor turned his pen towards his fellow writers, parodying the fare that was being passe
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Rai Bahadur Kanhaiya Lal’s Lahore is gone forever
This piece by Salma Mahmud first appeared in The Friday Times
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more…
Oh death in life, the days that are no more… Tennyson
Rai Bahadur Kanhaiya Lal was one of the most prominent engineers of his time, as well as being a well-known poet in Urdu and Persian and a cultural historian, who belonged to a Kayastha family of note.
The Kayasthas are an Indian caste group who are referred to as the direct blood progeny of the Vedic god Brahma in Hindu religious texts, having sprung from his kaya or body. It is said in the Vedas that they have a dual-caste status, being both Brahmin and Kshatriya, and they are mainly spread across North India. Their ancient profession was writing, and they have been noted for their ability to adapt and mingle with all around them. Many recent eminent Kayasthas have included Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Dr. Rajendra Prashad, the Bacchan family, and the Ma