Comeback Queen ; Kapila Vatsyayan, the Congress' Favourite Cultural Czarina, Is Back in Her Preserve, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, and the Tit-for-Tat with the Nda Is Now Almost Complete
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Why don't you go to them? Ram Niwas Mirdha and Karan Singh have also been appointed to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA)? Why only me?" says Kapila Vatsyayan, just before banging down the phone.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand the interest in 75-year-old Vatsyayan's triumphant, but suspiciously quiet, return to the institution she set up in 1987 when Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister. She is, after all, the quintessential face of the Gandhi cultural establishment, who managed to remain relevant to three generations of the family. While intimations of her immortality have been around since the UPA came to power-she was made vice-chairperson of the cultural advisory committee of the Ministry of Culture last year and as chief patron of the Asia Project at Delhi's India International Centre, she continues to wield clout as a source of funds for scholars and academics-her comeback is seen as a stinging rebuff to her detractors, who have never been enamoured of her famously autocratic working style.See the full content of this document
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Comeback Queen ; Kapila Vatsyayan, the Congress' Favourite Cultural Czarina, Is Back in Her Preserve, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, and the Tit-for-Tat with the Nda Is Now Almost Complete
It is not something the Ministry of Culture gives much credence to. For, in February this year, it ushered Vatsyayan as an IGNCA Trust member (along with Mirdha). In May, Karan Singh and Amjad Ali Khan were also nominated. In July, Karan Singh proposed her name as ...
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