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‘Harry Belafonte was the greatest’: Usha Uthup

‘Harry Belafonte was the greatest’: Usha Uthup

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Pop icon Usha Uthup | Photo Credit: Periasamy M. In 1968-69, when Usha Uthup was preparing for her opening night at Trincas on Park Street, her soon-to-be-husband requested her to sing Harry Belafonte’s ‘Matilda’. She knew the song, having heard the American singer’s 1959 album Belafonte at Carnegie Hall. Calling the singer-actor-human rights activist’s passing […]

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Rajani Thiranagama: My mother, the fearless leader

Rajani Thiranagama: My mother, the fearless leader

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Dr Rajani Thiranagama was a feminist, academic, scientist, and a fighter for truth and justice | Photo Credit: The Hindu archives “All the most powerful forces are invisible” observes Maali, the narrator of Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker Prize-winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. “Love, electricity, wind. And the waves following a bomb blast.” Unspoken is […]

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