Main samay hoon.... Announcer Harish Bhimani's bass voice set against the silhouette of the gently spinning wheel of time was a fixture at almost every Indian home during the serialization of one of the most dramatic Indian epics during the fall-summer seasons of 1988-1990. Bhimani, as the narrator of Mahabharata and the voice of time, signalled the start of every eagerly awaited episode on Sunday mornings when families gathered around...
12:15 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Gold and silver sales shoot up every year on Akshaya Tritiya, that usually falls in late April or early May. Many Hindus believe that this day is auspicious to buy gold and silver. The reasons for this day being auspicious are many: Parashuram, the sixth incarnation of Vishnu was born on this day; Veda Vyas and Ganesha began began writing the Mahabharata; on this day the Treta Yuga...
02:28 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, whose baritone is well-known, has lent his voice and face to the iconic character of Bheeshma Pitamah in an upcoming animation film 'Mahabharat'. Produced by PEN India, the Hindi film is a 50-crore project with voices from 15 major Bollywood stars. The characters from the epic will also look like the stars dubbing for them. "Amitabh Bachchan has lent his voice to the role of...
11:43 AM, Mar 12, 2012
Sir Edwin Arnold was an English poet and journalist best known for his 1879 book The Light of Asia that describes the life and times of Gautama Buddha. The book opened the world of Buddhism to Western readers. Arnold arrived in India in 1856 as principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona and returned to England in 1861, where he worked with the Daily Telegraph and ater became its...
07:16 PM, Dec 21, 2011
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The history of pre-modern South Indian culture has a dynamics based not entirely on 'affairs of kings or splendors of fortune' or just on mechanical ...
02:48 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today released a book tracing the formation of Bengali identity through Bengal Renaissance, growth of nationalistic policies and Partition. 'Land of two rivers: a history of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib', authored by former member secretary of Planning Commission Nitish Sengupta, gives a vivid account of the development of Bengal on either side. The book traces the eventful and turbulent history of...
04:38 PM, Sep 16, 2011
New Delhi: One of the best contemporary retelling of an Indian classical epic, 'The Great Indian Novel', a transcreation of Ved Vyasa's Mahabharata by writer-politician Shashi Tharoor, has completed 21 years since it was published. The writer celebrated the 21st birthday of his book by reading from it at the ongoing Arclight Literature Festival at the Alliance Francaise in the capital Saturday. The three-day festival began Friday. The seminal book,...
07:24 PM, Mar 08, 2011
First, he reworked The Ramayana into a modern, rip-roaring series rife with romance, adventure and passion. Next, Ashok Banker will be retelling The Mahabharata In the same way. In between, he has been working on Krishna's story as well in the Krishna Corialis series: the first volume of which, Slayer of Kamsa, has just been published. In an interview with ibnlive.com, the writer talks about his craft: IBNLive: Given the...
01:27 PM, Dec 25, 2010
Mumbai: Bipasha Basu, who has essayed different roles, is now keen to play mythological character Draupadi. "I would love to play the character of Draupadi. In fact, I got an offer but right now it's hanging in the air somewhere. I think it's a very dynamic mythological character and I think I'll do it well," Bipasha told. In the epic Mahabharata, Draupadi was the daughter of King Drupada, and became...
04:50 PM, Nov 09, 2010
Das is the first to emphasise the Mahabharat is no 'how-to' guide. ...
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Chindu Sreedharan has posted 33 tweets since July 29. ...
03:11 PM, Aug 05, 2009
He has given some path breaking movies like
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His
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This modern version of the epic is Ekta's biggest project ever. ...
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