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Dispatches from Kolkata

Ode to Lata

Published February 16, 2022 at 3:40 AM PST
Ode to Lata (including the cover of the book of the same name by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla)
Sandip Roy
Ode to Lata (including the cover of the book of the same name by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla)

Lata Mangeskhar the saintly lady in white, unmarried, devoted to her art, almost prudish is an unlikely guiding diva for queers, but in some sense she was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.

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