tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post1967781323071392641..comments2024-03-19T09:03:49.770+05:30Comments on Shobhaa De: Gayatri Devi fades away... so does beauty....Shobhaa Dehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05610708004901279105noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-88573140992661991722009-08-20T18:00:31.935+05:302009-08-20T18:00:31.935+05:30It was quite amazing how the Rajmata chose to age ...It was quite amazing how the Rajmata chose to age gracefully, rather than resort to surgery or even hair-dye.<br /><br />:)Sidhusaahebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08428201823375343016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-58179446604752818192009-08-03T19:03:22.434+05:302009-08-03T19:03:22.434+05:30Indeed vry sad to hea abt Rajmata..............its...Indeed vry sad to hea abt Rajmata..............its been a bad year first MJ thn Rajmata.......R.I.P Rajmata gyatri devi.<br /><br /><br />yr flight was scary..........dread such an experience....<br /><br /><br />Orissa is indeed beautiful.........<br /><br /><br />Luv<br /><br /><br />Krishkrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11030611428144437213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-52018740142950980072009-07-31T15:31:12.868+05:302009-07-31T15:31:12.868+05:30Although it is said that a thing of beauty is joy ...Although it is said that a thing of beauty is joy for ever but no body can stop the decaying process. A thing that blooms has to decay and that is the nature of nature!May the souls of Gayatri Devi and Leela Naidu rest in peace.चंद्रमौलेश्वर प्रसादhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08384457680652627343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-85892728264834617842009-07-31T14:45:11.239+05:302009-07-31T14:45:11.239+05:30I tend to agree with Another Kiran. Gayatri Devi w...I tend to agree with Another Kiran. Gayatri Devi was an icon(saw her b/w pics while smoking cigarette), a genuine beauty who lived a charmed life. All this is fine but it was quite personal and explicit. On an implicit level there's not a lot documented nor detailed regarding her involvement with broader issues like education, poverty, deprivation, health etc. Sure there are accounts of her association with certain NGO's and women's issues, but that I guess any royalty will be obliged to do to remain in the frame in post independent India.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-35240244781714551832009-07-31T13:00:15.288+05:302009-07-31T13:00:15.288+05:30Hello, fasninating gayatri devi lived. she was exq...Hello, fasninating gayatri devi lived. she was exquisite but cant help feel that despite the richness of her life she died lonely. <br /><br />have you ever considered responding to blogees comments in the manner the BigB does? might be an idea?<br /><br />TGIF!peternaliciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684071297015180057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-39019412795106240012009-07-31T08:51:43.861+05:302009-07-31T08:51:43.861+05:30Another Kiran represents a more realistic view of ...Another Kiran represents a more realistic view of Gayatri Devi. Really, she did not go beyond. If one do not use one's education and background properly and in the right direction, all that remains will be an empty beautiful shell. As for beauty and gracefulness, I rather prefer the friendliness and earthiness of the very antithesis Jassi. Beauty has some coldness and somehow it lacks genuine warmth. What is so special about her crying or other bodily functions? She is as mortal as anybody and her privileged circumstances added all that glitz and glamour. 90 is an age where death is more close than life and the much admired Gayatri died long back. Her body completed the ordeal 2 days back. Am I sounding too cynical and cold? We have too many VIPs making all the others inconsequential.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01689987224896883318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-53903160899754392342009-07-31T08:47:30.414+05:302009-07-31T08:47:30.414+05:30This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06984112194288580927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-67248308655502674202009-07-31T02:01:03.996+05:302009-07-31T02:01:03.996+05:30Maharani Gayatri Devi was truly the epitome of Ind...Maharani Gayatri Devi was truly the epitome of Indian beauty.<br />she proved her efficiency after registering largest victory margin in 1962 loksabha elections-approved by guiness book of world recordsNoelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05413326584211510094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-16880812644872858342009-07-30T21:59:59.167+05:302009-07-30T21:59:59.167+05:30Bloody hell...I heard her name once but didn't...Bloody hell...I heard her name once but didn't know that she is so dear to some of the older folks. After death everyone talks how great she was. Just read today that she was the third wife. That could well be the reason that she was not such a public figure.Anil Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07185075142594811893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-18259479637699266622009-07-30T21:16:49.284+05:302009-07-30T21:16:49.284+05:30Gayatri Devi's demise is end of beautiful and ...Gayatri Devi's demise is end of beautiful and great era. Really her compassionte behaviour and down to earth nature has made her earthly beauty to celestial one....Amit Kumar Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795946487304763512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-43443247616693852592009-07-30T20:58:59.372+05:302009-07-30T20:58:59.372+05:30Another K - You speak for me! I had the same feeli...Another K - You speak for me! I had the same feeling when I saw the palace of the Gwalior Royals, with rows and rows of their scions sucking up to the British. Disgusting.<br /><br />SHe was really stylish though. And sometimes, even the life of a princess can be sad.Narendra shenoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00435746867801885684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-83369962055181987142009-07-30T20:26:09.909+05:302009-07-30T20:26:09.909+05:30Another K... All I have to say is, you had to meet...Another K... All I have to say is, you had to meet her. You had to be in her presence! She was the Queen of the people. I met and spoke to her several times at my time in MGD. She was just like Shobha said, they don't make them like her any more :-D For the rest of my personal comments... read the comment I left on FB for you LOL ;-) Have a great trip... see you in India.<br />Puri... now there we agree on! Shobha, I need some too!<br />Aham... here we come baby, both me and AKNYC. You will need to pick one.. wink wink!ek-ladki-anjaani-sihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12890841958409242311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-69640397735088130552009-07-30T17:01:12.054+05:302009-07-30T17:01:12.054+05:30Hi,
Two stunning beauties passed away back to bac...Hi,<br /><br />Two stunning beauties passed away back to back. May both rest in peace.<br /><br />I maintain again, the way you write is simple and interesting,just love it. We are still looking forward to your posts and pics on Europe tour.<br /><br />Regards,Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00994889453237186321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-66465236321533082302009-07-30T16:51:38.984+05:302009-07-30T16:51:38.984+05:30Thank you for the wonderful piece Mam.
And I would...Thank you for the wonderful piece Mam.<br />And I would like to join you in wishing that the beautiful one rests in peace and love that one is sure she missed since long.<br /><br /><br />Rest in peace, love and relief<br />HH Maharani of Jaipur Gayatri Devi.I&Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07108993090240899282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-61996561806656950772009-07-30T16:05:34.147+05:302009-07-30T16:05:34.147+05:30I am sorry for the world's loss of anyone... G...I am sorry for the world's loss of anyone... Gayatri Devi and Leela Naidu included. Everyone has a dubious contribution to the enticing madness that makes up the "duniya". <br /><br />I am sure Gayatri Devi did some good in her own extremely remote, and anachronistically "royal" way... MGD school and a jail stint in opposition to Gandhi Memsaab Sr during the emergency. I suppose we must genuflect to that royal magnanimity. I am on my skinned knees already!<br /><br />However truly I cannot share the admiration for anything more than her beauty. I have watched a few rarely shown (I think they are just archived now) BBC TV interviews of her in her heyday up until the late 70's and I was really quite appalled at the extremely patronizing and completely out of touch with reality attitudes presented as her public facade. <br /><br />Without waving a laal jhanda complete with hammer and sickle, I can safely say those words coming from her own mouth, completely underlined the blood sucking, serf raping, responsibility shirking exploitive landlords/royals mentality of those the wily British made rich and ever more "royal" for thier administrative purposes. <br /><br />Her son's and her patronizing and misjudged attitudes of noblesse oblige in those interviews really made my stomach churn. Where she could have done good in an Independent India... a sustained stint for a long period even if in the opposition and truly representing "her(?)" people was abandoned before it came to full fruitition. Such dillitanteism! With her influence she could have done so very much for the women of Rajasthan and social prejiduices against them but did not.<br /><br />I will mourn for a very beautiful woman who wore chiffon and pearls well.<br /><br />Puri sounds wonderful! Pictures?Another Kiran In NYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15949641865013106368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-16017411840102615302009-07-30T15:20:46.752+05:302009-07-30T15:20:46.752+05:30Gayatri Devi has some kind of earthiness in her an...Gayatri Devi has some kind of earthiness in her and still, she seems like a dream. Her eyes and that poignant look is so very royal.<br /><br />Her loss would be felt profoundly. <br />******************<br /><br />Leela Naidu.. i am sure many dont know who she is. Cinema for most is Bebo and Kat and Deeps... and I dont see as many people fond of yester cinema these days... baring a few... <br /><br />Now though there is this new and very promising trend.... of film makers that's coming in.. many still believe that formula bhandarkar is what is meaningful cinema. <br /><br />Leela was another royal beauty. her Indo-French hybrid looks her foreign roots. How strange, both these ladies - Gayatri Devi and Leela Naidu featured in the list of most beautiful ladies in the world... and both died together.Harishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12609011423304441643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-19544217290424771372009-07-30T14:53:11.709+05:302009-07-30T14:53:11.709+05:30Shobhaa,
It is indeed sad to her about Maharani ...Shobhaa, <br /><br />It is indeed sad to her about Maharani Gayatri Devi. I have been meaning to write to you about how much I enjoy your blog and reading your views on social isus. I would love to read your views on the lack of good writers in India. Take a look at Indian films. I want to read what you think of the whole aspect of remaking and copying movie ideas and storylines from Hollywood and regional films.Ritwik Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09378907018639981505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-53715417777222924552009-07-30T14:44:03.531+05:302009-07-30T14:44:03.531+05:30I just read the Rajmata Gayatri Devi news. Yes ind...I just read the Rajmata Gayatri Devi news. Yes indeed, it is an end to a great era.The Unsure Ascetichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196315126703878175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-41441466998060569052009-07-30T14:39:12.731+05:302009-07-30T14:39:12.731+05:30Bhell Come Back.Bhell Come Back.Balvinder Ballihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05040171846198252874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-11245650940891659992009-07-30T13:16:47.282+05:302009-07-30T13:16:47.282+05:30Seems u had a nice time at Orissa ...the Puri sea ...Seems u had a nice time at Orissa ...the Puri sea beach is so soothing and relaxing!<br />the fly story was funny...it indeed was!Roshnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346542317317847012noreply@blogger.com