At The Edge

Today noticed that the famous 'lost' image of Parveen Babi has finally made its ways from this blog to Indian television. Newx channel used it in a run-of-the-mill 'nostalgic' piece on 'Glamour Girl's of Bollywood'. In logo ka meray bina kya hota . I posted the image around two years ago: Parveen Babi on Time Magazine Cover . You can calculated  calculate the pace of information around here. Also, earlier this year I actually found that the image wasn't actually that lost. India Today had last published in 1990. -0- 

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The Eye in Art by Dr. Rajendra Bajpai (1991) Publication Division Rs. 360 "The Eye could never have beheld the beautiful had it not been made beautiful itself first" -Plotinus As we see them today As it was rendered in old days As it was rendered in various schools  in old days Perhaps the best known - eyes of  (Radha) Bani-Thani drawn by Samant Singh's  best painter Nihalchand. Bani-Thani, the courtesan consort of prince Samant Singh of Krishangarh is believed to be the fabled inspiration of an entire style of drawing eyes in Indian painting- the eyes of Radha in Kishangarh School of Rajasthan. It is believed that the prince met her in Delhi, enamored, brought her to his kingdom, took on a poet name, nagri Das and wrote songs about her eyes: मद भरी, अखिय लाल तिहारी, तिनसौ  तकि-तकि तीर चलावति, वधति छतिया आनि  हमारी | -0- Some pop-trivia: among other things, her eyes were also the inspiration for the title credit roll for Rama