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Global iconshared a heartwarming moment with her daughter Malti, as the adorable duo gazed at the clouds in a tender mother-daughter bonding moment.Priyanka took to her Instagram stories, where she shared the beautiful moment with Malti on Instagram Stories. In the image, the two are seen enjoying being together and peacefully gazing up at the clouds. The actress is seen cradling Malti as they look up at a greyish sky filled with clouds.The actress was earlier in Sicily, Italy and shared some glamorous titbits from the picturesque locale.It was in 2018 when Priyanka got married to American popstarin Rajasthan in a traditional Christian wedding followed by a Hindu ceremony. The two welcomed Malti in 2022 via. On the professional front, Priyanka is all set to star in 'Heads Of State,' a project directed by. In this action-packed film, Priyanka plays Noel Bisset, an MI6 agent who joins forces with John Cena and Idris Elba's characters to navigate a high-stakes situation after their diplomatic mission is disrupted.
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India Today
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- India Today
From the India Today archives (2011)
(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated June 20, 2011)"As I begin to paint, hold the sky in your hands; as the stretch of my canvas is unknown to me."—M.F. Husain With the death of Maqbool Fida Husain in a London hospital on the morning of June 9, India has not only lost her most iconic contemporary artist but also perhaps one of the last living symbols of the very idea of her modern, secular and multicultural nationalism. Born in 1915 at the temple town of Pandharpur in Maharashtra, Husain came from a lower middle class Sulemani Muslim family and rose through the ranks to become India's most famous painter of people, places and a visual artist-especially a mid-20th century modernist painter-Husain was precariously perched on the crest of a nascent and evolving national consciousness. In the post-Partition era, when he first burst on the Indian art scene, Husain became a much celebrated symbol patronised by the Nehruvian state looking to create modernist role models. Yet, that very celebrity made him and his works vulnerable to be hijacked, misrepresented and reviled three decades later by a semi-literate cabal claiming to represent the collective voice of a largely silent Hindu majority. In fact, the torrid love affair between Husain and 'modern secular' India and their eventual dismaying disengagement makes for a civilisational sociologist Veena Das remarks, this "impossible love" had an inherent fragility because the idol, the image and the word are all strongly contested entities. It is also further complicated by the illicit intimacy between history and the 'perception of history' in post-colonial imaginations. The tantalising and tragic relationship-between a nation's notion of the self and Husain's visualisation of it in his art practice-became the vexed terrain over which competing political alignments fought their proxy wars for a good two decades before it eventually led to Husain's self-imposed exile from India in 2006. Four years later, he accepted Qatari nationality, spending his time between Dubai, London and Husain was educated in the streets of Indore, a madrassa in Baroda, the Indore School of Arts and very briefly the J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai. He was an immensely talented and intelligent man with an enormous curiosity about the world who learnt effortlessly from life and people. He arrived in what was then Bombay in the early 1930s, penniless but bursting with enthusiasm and energy, traits that he retained all through his first started out by walking the streets of Bombay offering to paint portraits of people who could afford to pay him Rs 25. There were not too many commissions but some of these early portraits still survive. In 2008 in London, I saw a portrait Husain had done of Lord Ghulam Noon's elder brother in a Bhendi Bazaar sweet shop. Soon, he moved to painting cinema hoardings, first for V. Shantaram's Prabhat Studios and later for New perched high on bamboo scaffolding, Husain learnt to be able to concentrate amid the noise and chaos of the street below. He used to paint 40 foot hoardings for four annas a foot under the blazing sun in Mumbai for many years. From painting hoardings, he progressed to designing toys and painting children's furniture for Rs 300 a month. "But even at that time I knew I would be an artist one day," he used to say, adding, "there was a time when I painted furniture by day and my own art by night. I painted non-stop." Cinema held a life-long fascination for Husain and decades later, he went on to make several much-talked about films. Of these Through the Eyes of a Painter (1967) won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival but the most well-known is Gaja Gamini (2000) that featured Madhuri Dixit as his muse. In 2004 he made the semi-autobiographical Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities with Tabu in the lead role which ran into trouble with Muslim life started to change radically around the time of Independence. Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002), the prodigious enfant terrible of Indian art, spotted Husain's talent by chance and immediately included him in his Progressive Artists Group (PAG) in 1947. Husain's work was noticed right from that first showing and with the encouragement of Rudi von Leyden, the German Jewish art critic, he held his first one-man show in Mumbai in 1950. With prices ranging from Rs 50 to Rs 300, the exhibition sold out. As Husain told me with a chuckle, "I was a best seller right from start."advertisementWhat differentiates Husain from his Progressive contemporaries is his deeply rooted 'Indianness' and his celebration of Indian life and people. While his contemporaries were busily assimilating European art from Byzantium downwards, Husain sought inspiration in temple sculptures (Mathura and Khajuraho), Pahari miniature paintings and Indian folk the mid-1950s Husain got national recognition with two very seminal canvases 'Zameen' and 'Between the Spider and the Lamp'. 'Zameen' was inspired by Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zameen (1955) but instead of bemoaning rural poverty and indebtedness, it presents a symbolic celebration of life in rural India with a vibrancy that had never been seen before. "I realised one did not have to paint like Europeans to be modern," he maintained. Nor did he, at any time, understand the angst of existentialism."Alienation as a concept is alien to my nature," he would joke. The next year he painted the more enigmatic 'Between the Spider and the Lamp'. This painting, considered by cognoscenti to be his best of all time, features five women reminiscent of ancient Indian sculpture with an oil lamp hanging from the top of canvas and some unintelligible words in a script that looks like ancient Brahmi, Magadhi or some long forgotten dialect. From the hand of one woman, painted as if frozen in a mudra, hangs a large spider by its thread. Some critics have suggested the women were the pancha kanyas (Ahalya, Kunti, Draupadi, Tara, Mandodari) of Hindu mythology. When this painting was shown, despite the ripples it created, no one came forth to buy it for Rs 800. It now hangs at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, on loan from the Husain became a living icon of Hindu-Muslim, gangajamni culture, his art acquired a quintessentially Indian form and content while being global in its relevance and appeal. Moreover, Husain invariably brought relevance to his paintings by making them topical. He was ever ready with the 'image of the day' whether it entailed painting the 'Man on the Moon' in 1969 or Indira Gandhi as Durga after the Bangladesh war in modern Indian art gained wider acceptance through the 1970s and 1980s, Husain was steadily scaling up his prices and using the media to create hype around his colourful persona and his escapades. "Life without drama is too drab," he used to say. Detractors screamed commercialisation and friends frowned in exasperation; but Husain insisted that "the fiscal worth of a painting is in the eyes of the buyer". And buyers came in Badri Vishal Pitti, the Hyderabad businessman for whom he painted 150 paintings, to Chester Herwitz, a handbag tycoon from Boston, who bought up anything that Husain produced through the 1970s. Two decades later, Kolkata industrialist G.S. Srivastava struck a deal for 124 Husain paintings for Rs 100 crore; not for love of art but as good investment. Indian art was appreciating at a higher rate than most stocks and brand Husain was now Husain Inc. After his emigration from India, Sheikha Mozah of Qatar was his last great all his fame and wealth, Husain was personally untouched by both. He could be as comfortable in a dhaba as in a five-star hotel relishing an expensive meal. He stopped wearing footwear as a tribute to the Hindi poet Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh in 1974 and he used to walk barefoot into the most exclusive and august gatherings as well as clubs the world epic saga is ever perfect. And Husain had more than his share of controversies and brickbats. However, it is in posterity that Husain's art and persona will get a truer reckoning. Perhaps the best tribute the Indian state could give would be to set up a museum devoted to the life and art of this most talented son of the to India Today Magazine
Time of India
an hour ago
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Kris Jenner's facelift transformation sparks debate, top plastic surgeon claims it's 'AI-generated or digitised'; video goes viral
Kris Jenner is hyping up the plastic surgeon who performed her facelift 14 years ago, and is currently making headlines across all platforms. However, amid this, a renowned plastic surgeon has cast doubts on Jenner's dramatic new look, accusing her of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to alter her images. In a recent post, the doctor also called out the American media personality for setting unrealistic expectations, which aren't true. Kris Jenner sparked a frenzy when she showed up in Paris the previous month, joining her daughter Kim Kardashian during court appearances, when she looked far younger than her age, 69. As soon as the pictures surfaced on social media, they quickly went viral, and social media users became desperate to find out who her doctor was. Some even joked that Jenner has found the 'fountain of youth.' A renowned plastic surgeon questioned Kris Jenner's viral facelift procedure After Jenner's look went viral, her representative later confirmed that she had consulted a celebrity plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven M. Levine, who is also popularly known as 'the facelift maestro.' However, soon after this, a post on Instagram grabbed the attention of netizens on Wednesday. The video went viral and has been viewed over 250,000 times since it was dropped. The post has been shared by Dr. Gary Lawton, who suggested that Jenner's pictures are morphed or have been altered with the use of AI tools. 'Defy all surgical and anatomical realities' According to the Daily Mail, the San Antonio-based surgeon said that the pictures published across the platforms show her new look 'defying all surgical and anatomical realities'. Dr. Lowton went on to say in the video that there is no possible way that this is a surgical transformation. Adding a detailed analysis, Dr. Lawton noted that the images circulating online look AI-generated or heavily edited. According to him, the problem is that people have seen her in person, and if you look at the pictures now, there is no possible way this is a surgical transformation. Viral post suggests reasons behind the Jenners' fake facelift Dr. Lawton explains, If you look at the jawline and chin, it's markedly narrower, and the chin is more pointed. There is a drastic reshaping of the mandible (jawbone). According to him, severe slimming at the lower jawbone would need bony recontouring, which happens with an extensive soft tissue repositioning, where there is no surgical evidence. However, Jenner has neither confirmed nor denied that she has undergone surgery. Netizens react to the viral video As soon as the video surfaced on Instagram, netizens shared their thoughts on the same. Some said, "Thank you. Somebody had to say it and it was said. 👏👏🙌" While another added, "Its hard to believe anything you see these days." "I saw video of her not a picture and she looks exactly like that," one added. What's your take on Kris Jenner's new facelift look? To stay updated on the stories that are going viral, follow Indiatimes Trending.
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Archana Puran Singh schools troll for calling her house an ‘old age home' with ‘daadu and naani living together': ‘It's an Indian home'
Archana Puran Singh is among the most famous television personalities, who has also successfully gained a massive following on her social media handles and has millions of subscribers on her YouTube channel. However, among these followers, there are some trolls as well. And recently, Archana schooled one of those trolls on her social media. Commenting on one of her social media posts, a user asked, 'Just for academic interest, why is your daadu and naani living together? Is it like an old age home?' This comment quickly attracted Archana's attention who replied, 'Just for your academic knowledge: It's not an 'old age' home. It is an Indian home. Let me further give you the definition of an 'Indian home', it is where elders are loved and respected and kept close to the family.' Archana took a screenshot of this comment and her reply, and shared on her Instagram Stories to highlight the insensitivity of people in the comments section. ALSO READ | After feud with Sandeep Reddy Vanga, Deepika Padukone to star in Atlee's next with Allu Arjun. Watch video Archana and her husband Parmeet Sethi live in a bungalow in Madh Island along with their sons, Ayushmaan and Aaryamann. Their bungalow is also home to Archana's mother and Parmeet's father. Archana's family members often appear on her YouTube channel. While Archana's vlogs are relatively new, her videos became viral during COVID-19 pandemic when she shared several updates from her huge property in Madh Island. Archana Puran Singh, who started her career as an actor, gained fame after becoming part of films like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and shows like Comedy Circus and The Kapil Sharma Show.
