tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post3167091227495818669..comments2024-03-27T14:57:37.031+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: On Zohra Segal's Close-UpJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-8640249893371807482011-09-06T04:13:13.780+05:302011-09-06T04:13:13.780+05:30I love Zora Sehgal and was so happy to find this r...I love Zora Sehgal and was so happy to find this review by stopping by this favorite blog after too long an absence - great review and thanks for letting me know about a book I want to read and probaby would have missed. -- Virginia K in NYCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-55650375333868770602010-08-10T13:52:53.115+05:302010-08-10T13:52:53.115+05:30As is so typical of you, this short review imbues ...As is so typical of you, this short review imbues with the indulgent, playful charm that a grandson always retains towards his <i> granny </i> when he tries relating to so many of her colourful exploits and quite a few of her self-admitted gaffes to the outside world; the sharply discerning, ‘view-from-the-pulpit’ account is peppered with an empathy, an endearingly warm genre that easily invades into the core of the person, fleshing her out from all the glare and so many public layers... making her close and humane and loveable. <br />Thanks, so much.Kaushik Chatterjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08712252983920471892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-78601177019207947212010-08-06T01:34:34.473+05:302010-08-06T01:34:34.473+05:30Recently, that's about an year ago (but consid...Recently, that's about an year ago (but considering her age 'recent' is just another day), at a META theatre festival awards where she was the (wheel)CHAIRPERSON of the ceremony, she actually recited the whole of first stanza of 'Abhi toh mai jawan hoon' without any help. I wondered how she jogged her memory when she could not even walk physically.... But then life is stranger than fiction.<br />May she live like that whatever years are left of her life, fulllll of life and zing.Hill Goathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17602386756415628453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-53702412517166360972010-08-05T14:21:47.120+05:302010-08-05T14:21:47.120+05:30"All this is relegated to a listing at the bo..."All this is relegated to a listing at the book’s end, which creates a sense of incompleteness"<br /><br />There was a similar sudden ending in Balraj Sahni's "Meri Filmi Aatmkatha". If I remember correctly, he lost interest in writing about his life after he had "made it" in the industry.Rahulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08600228969911790479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-37648331666956754142010-08-05T02:02:45.364+05:302010-08-05T02:02:45.364+05:30Wasn't she part of a TV serial 'Tandoori N...Wasn't she part of a TV serial 'Tandoori Nights?' with Saeed Jafrrey and others? Shoud Google that one...<br /><br />LakshmiLakshmihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03935803939491045516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-73078468102300131452010-08-04T21:46:28.447+05:302010-08-04T21:46:28.447+05:30thanks, after reading this, I did a youtube search...thanks, after reading this, I did a youtube search if there were any recordings of Zohra Segal (incidentally why is her surname spelled with an 'h' most times?)and had no luck. Did find out she was responsible for the very charming choreography for the film, 'CID'.anu kumarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-25457410176055596942010-08-04T18:43:25.224+05:302010-08-04T18:43:25.224+05:30Lovely! Reminded me of one of my neighbors who als...Lovely! Reminded me of one of my neighbors who also lived a remarkable life.Giribalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11481010044909052232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-80238113252422636622010-08-04T16:31:29.101+05:302010-08-04T16:31:29.101+05:30Second Sandhya. You brought the review to a very p...Second Sandhya. You brought the review to a very poignant end.Sudipto Basuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272783734959529945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-87066533573129351042010-08-04T09:49:25.058+05:302010-08-04T09:49:25.058+05:30Great post, and I loved the ending. How true. I co...Great post, and I loved the ending. How true. I could almost see my own (now deceased) grandmother as I read it.sandhyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09654489216158421654noreply@blogger.com