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NDTV
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Ravi Mohan's Rumoured Girlfriend Kenishaa Francis Gets Death Threats Amid His Spilt From Aarti
New Delhi: Ravi Mohan and his estranged wife Aarti Ravi's fight for divorce has grabbed the limelight for all wrong reasons. Amid the public fight, Ravi Mohan's rumoured girlfriend Kenishaa Francis shared multiple screenshots of messages on her Instagram Story claiming she has received death threats. Kenishaa's move comes days after Aarti Ravi took an indirect dig at Ravi's relationship with Kenishaa. In her statement, Aarti alleged that her marriage broke because of a "third person." Kenishaa Francis wrote on Instagram, "I'm not turning off my comments or running away. I have nothing to hide from no body. You have the right to question my actions but please come do it to my face and I'm happy to show each one of you and in public my side of the story and how one person's falsification is your truth. Please take me to court if you're confident that I'm even a catalyst to anything that is happening around me now. I beg you- take me to court! Do it rightfully!" Have any of you paused to think about what I'm going through with your curses and abuse? You speak of karma to hurt me, but when the truth comes out-legally and legitimately-I won't wish that same pain upon you," she added. In another Instagram Story, Kenishaa Francis wrote if her actions are wrong, God would punish her. "I understand that because most of you don't know my truth and pain, words like this and worse are easy to lay upon me. I'm sorry your assumptions are hurting you. But I pray to the Gods of light that someday soon, the truth will unfold. If I'm wrong, I'm ready to be punished by law. Until then, can I be allowed to breathe without hatred?" she wrote. On May 21, the estranged couple filed individual petitions amid their fight for divorce. At the Family Court, Ravi re-iterated his claim of granting a divorce while Aarti Ravi claimed Rs 40 lakh as monthly alimony. In the court hearing on May 21, Ravi urged the court to reject Aarti's plea for cohabitation. The Court advised both parties to reconsider their petitions and adjourned the matter till June 12. Ravi Mohan hit the headlines last year after he announced his divorce from Aarti. In a counter-post, Aarti claimed the decision was made "without her consent". Ravi Mohan mentioned in his note he hasn't taken the decision of divorce in haste. He wrote, "After much thought, reflections and discussions, I have taken the difficult decision to proceed with the dissolution of marriage with Aarti. This decision was not made out of haste and it stems from personal reasons that I believe are in the best interests of everyone involved." He also changed his name from Jayam Ravi to Ravi Mohan. Ravi Mohan, son of veteran film editor A Mohan, is known for films such as Jayam, Daas, Mazhai, Bommarillu, Peranmai, Romeo Juliet, Bhoomi and Siren. For the unversed, Aarti is the daughter of television producer Sujatha Vijayakumar. Ravi Mohan and Aarti are parents to two sons, Aarav and Ayaan.
NDTV
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Ravi Mohan's Estranged Wife Aarti Seeks Rs 40 Lakh Monthly Alimony
New Delhi: Aarti Ravi and Ravi Mohan appeared before the Chennai Family Court o n May 21 and filed individual petitions amid their fight for divorce. Since Ravi Mohan announced his divorce last year, the estranged couple have been hurling accusations at each other in public. At the Family Court, Ravi re-iterated his claim of granting a divorce while Aarti Ravi claimed Rs 40 lakh as monthly alimony. Earlier, Ravi Mohan had filed a petition seeking divorce, following which the court directed the couple to attend reconciliation sessions. The couple had been attending these sessions as per instructions. In the court hearing on May 21, Ravi urged the court to reject Aarti's plea for cohabitation. The Court advised both parties to reconsider their petitions and adjourned the matter till June 12. A day ago, Aarti Ravi issued a long statement and called Ravi Mohan's rumoured girlfriend Kenishaa Francis a "homebreaker". An excerpt from her statement read, "The truth needs to be said - once and for all. Money, power, interference, or control-- none of these are why our marriage suffers. There is a third person in our marriage. What broke us wasn't something between us-it was someone outside. The "light of your life" brought only darkness into ours. That's the truth. This person was already in the picture-long before any divorce papers were filed. This isn't guesswork. I have proof." Ravi Mohan hit the headlines last year after he announced his divorce from Aarti. In a counter-post, Aarti claimed the decision was made "without her consent". Ravi Mohan mentioned in his note he hasn't taken the decision of divorce in haste. He wrote, "After much thought, reflections and discussions, I have taken the difficult decision to proceed with the dissolution of marriage with Aarti. This decision was not made out of haste and it stems from personal reasons that I believe are in the best interests of everyone involved." He also changed his name from Jayam Ravi to Ravi Mohan. Ravi Mohan, son of veteran film editor A Mohan, is known for films such as Jayam, Daas, Mazhai, Bommarillu, Peranmai, Romeo Juliet, Bhoomi and Siren. For the unversed, Aarti is the daughter of television producer Sujatha Vijayakumar. Ravi Mohan and Aarti are parents to two sons, Aarav and Ayaan.
Boston Globe
28-01-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Bernard Spring, former Boston Architectural College president, dies at 97
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'Known for his transformative leadership in architectural education, he leaves behind a legacy of innovation, advocacy, and dedication to the profession,' Advertisement In its memorial tribute, what is now the Mr. Spring's return to Boston, where he finished his college administrator career, was welcomed from those inside and outside of academia. 'He's the perfect person for the BAC,' Jane Holtz Kay, an author and architecture critic whose work was published in the Globe and elsewhere, told the Globe in December 1980. Mr. Spring, she added, is 'very solid, very caring. He has a rare mix of qualities, both an architect and an educator.' Throughout his years as a teacher and administrator, which included stints at MIT, Cooper Union in New York City, and Princeton University before he became a City College dean, Mr. Spring was also a practicing architect. Advertisement 'That was one of the basics of my career always, to have practicing teachers,' he said in a 2023 interview with architect Dalton Whiteside. 'When they weren't practicing, I tried to get them to practice, and I wouldn't hire anyone who was not in practice,' Mr. Spring said. 'And so I think that improves a faculty a lot.' As the leader of what is now Boston Architectural College, in the Back Bay, Mr. Spring was 'a role model I look up to — an institution builder,' Daas said in an interview. 'We realize that these institutions have an impact for multiple generations. I think he recognized that calling,' Daas said, adding that because of Mr. Spring's transformational role, 'we stand on his shoulders.' Born in the Bronx borough of New York City on July 9, 1927, Mr. Spring was the youngest of four siblings. His parents were Eastern European immigrants from areas where national borders kept shifting before and after World War I and World War II. His father, Herman Spring, was a kosher butcher in the Bronx before running one of the first self-serve supermarkets in the city. Mr. Spring's mother, Rose Polmer Spring, was working at the checkout of the store when she and Herman fell in love and married. In the interview with Whiteside, Mr. Spring recalled that in his Bronx boyhood, he 'played stickball in the streets like a real New Yorker.' He was about 11 when his family moved to Manhattan. While attending William Howard Taft High School in the Bronx, initially 'it looked like I was going to be a writer and go into journalism,' he told Whiteside, until a teacher who had aspired to be an architect encouraged him to follow that path. Advertisement Mr. Spring counted among his boyhood friends the future film director Stanley Kubrick. Through another friend he met Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian-German architect, and Walter Gropius, a pioneering modernist architect who founded the Bauhaus School. As a Taft student, Mr. Spring took a train to Boston to meet them, and subsequently was the only child in his family to attend college, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in architecture. Then he went to MIT for a master's in architecture, studying under teachers such as Louis Kahn. Another teacher believed architecture students benefited from at least one art course, and sent them to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts . In a pottery course there he met Phyllis Tubiolo, whom he married in 1951. 'Everybody else was very proprietary about their glazes, and my mother said, 'Sure, go ahead use my glazes. They're on this shelf,' ' said their daughter Elin Spring Kaufman of Swampscott. An educator with a doctorate from Columbia University, Phyllis Spring coordinated the talented and gifted program in the southern part of suburban Westchester County when the family lived in New York City. As Mr. Spring's MIT graduate studies ended, the Navy recruited him to work at the Boston Naval Shipyard, where he helped design improvements for ships that would see action during the Korean War. After the war, a Fulbright scholarship brought him to Finland, and then he spent a year teaching at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. His early career back in the United States included teaching at MIT, doing research on building materials for Weyerhaeuser in Seattle, and teaching at Cooper Union. Advertisement When Mr. Spring worked at Princeton, he and Robert L. Geddes coauthored 'A Study of Education for Architectural Design,' known simply as 'The Princeton Project.' The 1967 report 'revolutionized architectural education by establishing comprehensive standards for design schools across the country,' City College said in its tribute. Two years later, In addition to his wife, Phyllis, and daughter Elin, Mr. Spring leaves a son, Jonathan of Sherborn; two other daughters, Suzy Welch of New York and Della of Boston; 11 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Plans for a memorial service have not been decided. Even though he held top leadership posts during an academic career that lasted more than 35 years, 'he was mostly a quiet man, and when he did speak it was spot-on and often very funny,' Della said. 'He'd come out with a pithy comment, and he loved to laugh.' Mr. Spring 'lived his values,' Elin said, and those went beyond the creativity of architecture and the discipline of being an administrator. 'He was a guitarist and a music lover, he was an art lover. He instilled in all of us the same patterns of cultural enrichment.' Her father, she said, 'was also an avid sailor. The memories that bring me the most joy are the ones that recall his gentle manner and his adventurous spirit. I can just see him at the helm at the boat all the time, and how that filled him up. He had this great look when he was sailing.' Advertisement Bryan Marquard can be reached at
