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1. www.jstor.org › stable › 27291760Enter Stage Right: The Alkazi/Padamsee Family Memoir; by ...

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   The eldest son of Jaffer Ali and Kulsum Padamsee, Sultan or Bobby, as he was fondly called started the Theatre Group. Apart from the indelible influence of British education at Miss Murphy’s boarding school in Bombay, at Shropshire in England, and a couple of years at Oxford, he was influenced

2. indianexpress.com › article › books-and-literatureIn his Alkazi-Padamsee family memoir Enter Stage Right ...

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   Sep 25, 2021 · I wouldn’t be wrong if I said more than half of my generation of theatre workers in India is influenced by Alkazi saab. There is a reason why Feisal begins the memoir with a fine introduction of his maternal grandmother, Kulsumbai Padamsee.

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3. www.artisera.com › blogs › expressionsAkbar Padamsee: A Thinker's Artist Who Explored the ...

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   Jan 23, 2020 · Born in 1928 into a traditional Khoja Muslim family hailing from Gujarat, Akbar Padamsee took a strong liking to art from his childhood. Hailing from a privileged family, Padamsee’s father was an affluent businessman who ran a glassware and furniture business.

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4. www.thehindu.com › society › a-family-repertory-theThe Alkazi and Padamsee familes have played a vital role in ...

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   Jul 11, 2021 · The Alkazi and Padamsee clans have played, and continue to play, an extraordinary role in the history of modern Indian theatre. The Padamsee extended family with Ebrahim Alkazi and Alyque...

5. borderlines-cssaame.org › posts › 2019/10/7The Progressive Artists' Group & the ‘Idea of India’

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   Oct 9, 2019 · Every lover of Indian art knows this story: in 1947, in the immediate aftermath of India’s independence from British rule, six firebrands united in Bombay to forge a modern art for the newly free nation. They were the Progressive Artists’ Group (also known as ‘the PAG’).

6. www.mid-day.com › sunday-mid-day › articleNew memoir revisits two Mumbai families who resurrected theatre

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   Jan 24, 2021 · Ebrahim Alkazi and Roshen on their wedding day in October 1946. It was at a horseshoe-shaped dining table in 1943, that the story of English theatre in Bombay was first scripted, and with that, the...

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   Who was Padamsee's father?

   • Hailing from a privileged family, Padamsee’s father was an affluent businessman who ran a glassware and furniture business. As a child, Padamsee would copy images from ‘The Illustrated Weekly of India’ magazine in his father's accounts books at their store on Chakla Street, in South Mumbai.

   Akbar Padamsee: A Thinker's Artist Who Explored the Intricacies of

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   How did Padamsee develop a passion for art?

   • As a child, Padamsee would copy images from ‘The Illustrated Weekly of India’ magazine in his father's accounts books at their store on Chakla Street, in South Mumbai. His fondness for art grew through the photographs of gods and goddesses his grandmother shared with him, and the antique furniture and flower vases that adorned his home.

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   Why did Padamsee move to Paris?

   • It was Raza’s move that prompted Padamsee to move to the French capital to study painting. Raza, Souza and Padamsee became the trio of modern Indian artists whose canvasses were influenced by French avantgarde sensibilities. It was in Paris that Padamsee developed his own artistic language.

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   Where has Padamsee been exhibited?

   • Padamsee was part of prestigious group exhibitions at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford and the Grosvenor Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, amongst several others.

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   How many Padamsee brothers were there in Bombay?

   • It all started when Bobby, or Sultan, Padamsee, the eldest Padamsee brother — the two families had 17 siblings between them, several of whom would distinguish themselves in theatre and the arts — had to return to Bombay after just six months as a student at Oxford due to the outbreak of World War II.

   A family repertory: The contribution of the Alkazi and Padamsee clans

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   Why are the Alkazi & Padamsee clans famous?

   • Both names are legendary; the Alkazi and Padamsee clans contributed hugely to the formation and recognition of modernism in both Indian theatre and art.

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8. elephant.art › how-the-south-asian-modernists-usedHow the South Asian Modernists Represented Postcolonial ...

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   Aug 13, 2020 · A generation of artists from India and Pakistan found their voice in painting, combining international influences with a distinctively personal perspective on South Asian culture. Akbar Padamsee, Untitled (Disciples in Landscape). Courtesy the Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai.