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Ravi Varma, who was given the title of Raja, by the king of the Kerala principality he grew up in, was a prodigious talent, who honed his skills in the world outside, not just cloistered in riches and privilege. He could easily have done that, given that his wife was of royal lineage. But his outward seeking abilities, celebrating the sensualist in him, led him away from his stifling life (and wife), to a stint with the Baroda maharaja and Mumbai, which helped him bloom.
Ketan Mehta’s film, based on a biography by Marathi writer Ranjit Desai, sketches the life and tumultuous times of Varma ( Hooda), starting from vignettes of his childhood, lingering at his flowering, and ending with an important point—how
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Indian writer and academic (1938–2019)
Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Nôbonita Deb Sen; 13 January 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Indian writer and academic. After studying arts and comparative literature, she moved to the United States where she studied further. She returned to India and taught at several universities and institutes as well as serving in various positions in literary institutes. She published more than 80 books in Bengali: poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism, personal essays, travelogues, humour writing, translations and children's literature. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2000 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999.
Early life and education
[edit]Dev Sen was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) into a Bengali family on 13 January 1938. She was the only child of the poet-couple Narendra Dev (Narendra Deb 1888–1971, son of Nagendra Chandra Deb) and Radharani Devi (1903–1989), who wrote under the pen name Aparajita Devi.[1][2][3][4] She was given her name by Rabindranath Tagore.[5][6]
Her childhood experiences included World War II air raids, seeing people starving in the Bengal famine of 1943, and the impact of large numbers of refugees arriving in Calcutta after th
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