Most of the obituaries on Ameen Sayani, who passed away this week, recalled a “golden voice of the yesteryears”. Ameen Sayani’s mother, Kulsum, met Gandhi in 1917, and since then, she weaved threads of nationalism on the charkha and spread the message of Hindustani. Kulsum’s son, as a much sought-after broadcast voice, would one day flip Gandhi’s famous call to …
Published : Aug 17, 2022 19:21 IST 1980: Prakash Padukone wins All England Championship India is today a big name in international badminton, with four men and one woman in the top 20 of the Badminton World Federation rankings. As much as the FoIs have been criticised for being pointless pageantry besides incorporating ‘culture as an arm of diplomacy’, they …
