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
Heeramandi, translating literally to “diamond market,” is situated in Lahore near the Taxali Gate and Badshahi Mosque. There’s a debate over its naming, with some attributing it to Heera Singh Dogra, son of Dhian Singh Dogra, Prime Minister during Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s reign. It is the subject of the famous Indian writer-director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s […]Read More