Mother india

In the summer of 1976 I attended Habitat: The United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver, Canada. While walking with a friend across the campus of the University of British Columbia where the conference was taking place we saw an older woman of diminutive stature with a lined, weathered [...]

Mother India (1957)

Bharat Mata is India personified, come let us visit her temples across the country in Varanasi, Haridwar, Kanyakumari, Ujjain & Shekhawati.

Mother India (1957): Taking inspiration from his 1940 film 'Aurat', director Mehboob Khan remade the film in 1957 as 'Mother India'. The film revolves around the story of Radha (Nargis) who struggles to raise her sons in the absence of her husband and survive against a money-lender. With some powerful performances by Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, 'Mother India' became the first Hindi film to be nominated for the Oscars.

19 Oct 1979, Calcutta, India --- Mother Teresa with children from the orphanage she operates in Calcutta. Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Boyaxihu) the Roman Catholic, Albanian nun revered as India's "Saint of the Slums," was awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. --- Image by © Kapoor Baldev/Sygma/CORBIS

This painting i did to celebrate the completion of 75 years of Indian Independence. Our Mother India is, by nature, usually calm but at times can also be as fierce as a Lion. Here’s depicting a roaring lion from the recently unveiled Indian Emblem. Happy Independence Day my fellow Indians :) Proud to be an Indian!