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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Gayatri Devi left it all to us: Grandkids

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Twenty-one days after her death, the grandchildren of Gayatri Devi, former queen mother of Jaipur, claimed she had left all her properties, worth about Rs 2,150 crore (Rs 21.5 billion), to them.

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Devraj Singh, 28, and his sister Lalitya, 30, said: "We are the only natural legal heirs entitled to succeed. Her last will, in our favour, was left with his Highness Maharaja Sawai Bhawani Singhji of Jaipur ... this is in the knowledge of all family members."

Though they did not reveal details of the will, HT found out it is a one-page unregistered document, written in English, and says: "all my movable and immovable properties will go to my grandchildren Devraj Singh and Lalitya".

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The last of Mumbai's truly romantic figures

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Leela Naidu incarnated an ideal of luminous beauty and flawless elegance that was almost too perfect to bear, perhaps most of all for herself. The truth of this poetic speculation can only be borne out by her future biographers, but for many of Mumbai's citizens, Naidu's death on Tuesday closes yet another chapter in the city's history as a cosmopolitan hub. Her claim to the public sphere was not based on her career as an occasional, though memorable, actor. She was, quite simply, a legend, the symbol of a Zeitgeist.

Although she had, for over a decade, withdrawn into a private world peopled mainly by memories, Naidu never lost her hold over the city's imagination. To those who cherish Mumbai as it was before the decades of ethnic tension and road rage, Naidu embodied the grace of a city that allowed actors, poets, journalists, scientists, painters and filmmakers to come together and produce a vibrant culture of conversation and collaboration.

This writer vividly recalls Naidu's home in Colaba, south Mumbai, from the late 1980s. She and the celebrated poet and memoirist Dom Moraes, to whom she was then married, had crafted around themselves an environment replete with carefully chosen books, paintings, textiles and ritual objects.

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