Tag Archives: Amitabh Bachchan

Last Lear – Rituparna Ghosh’s Thesis on Amitabh Bachchan

Posted on October 12, 2020 by secondsaturn

Many moons ago, my senior in Jadavpur University, now a eminent gender economist, was keen that Rituparna Ghosh who was a year senior to me in the class and I should become very good friends. I barely knew who he … Continue reading →

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Amitabh at 75 years

Posted on October 12, 2017 by secondsaturn

On his landmark birthday of three fourth way towards a century, Amitabh Bachchan retains the romance of the star he once rose to be some four decades ago. He is active in films, in the entertainment business, on social media, … Continue reading →

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Amitabh @ Prateeksha

Posted on September 24, 2017 by secondsaturn

It was exactly on the 20th of December 1990 that I got an invitation from Amitabh Bachchan to be his house guest at Prateeksha in Mumbai. The invitation came through a call from Mumbai, then still Bombay in my landlord’s … Continue reading →

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Amitabh’s Feminism

Posted on September 27, 2016 by secondsaturn

Amitabh Bachchan’s letter to his granddaughters is important in more ways than one. Firstly, it is a letter. Letter writing is an art of which the cultural elite know very well across the world; the intellectual pariahs who abound the … Continue reading →

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Amitabh Bachchan – Cricket Commentary

Posted on February 22, 2015 by secondsaturn

I have long stopped following cricket; I find that it was taking up far too much emotional space in my life. I decided to free myself of the affective efforts associated whenever India plays its cricket matches so that I … Continue reading →

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