The golden nightingale of the golden age of Indian classical music, a radiant beauty draped in feisty opulence mesmerising the eyes, dropping jaws, getting the feets dance at her rhythms, tunes, songs and pioneering the epoch of recording in India and asserting the right of a performer to protect, own and exploit one’s identity, what […]Read More
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Suniti Devi, born on 30th September 1864, emerged as a pivotal figure in the history of Cooch Behar, a princely state in British India. Her life, steeped in royal duty and cultural enlightenment, intertwined the traditions of Bengal with the winds of change blowing across India in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born […]Read More