Ustaad Zakir Hussain is one of the most charismatic musicians of India. Once a musical prodigy, he started his musical journey at an early age with his father – the late Ustad Alla Rakha who, with Ravi Shankar, introduced Indian classical music to the West I had seen Ustaad Zakir Hussian acting in movies, or…

It was a triumphant moment for Indian Cinema when Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair’s ode to ‘Punjabiyat,’ was honored with the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. She is the true inheritor of Ray’s cinematic mantle, said an exuberant Indian film critic.  Within a few hours of the award’s announcement, three hundred…