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This desire for a private existence away from the commercial eye has been shown in his refusal to play for radio and television, and in his declining the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhusan Awards in 1964 and 1968. The awards are the highest distinctions the Indian government pays to Indian artists...
...must confess I liked best the simplest of the dances, performed not by Shanta Rao herself but by her assistants, Chandramati and Padma. Imagine if you can an Indian Sophia Loren, as my companion in the audience suggested, and a lovely doll-like Oriental performing a dance of intense flirtation with the audience, whispering silently to them, looking them in the eye. One was sultry, pouting; the other prim and coquettish; yet both were dancing the same steps. When one glared out of the corner of her eye, the other peeked; yet both moved their eyes at the same time...
...roar of gun salutes echoed from the peaks of the Himalayas. The 108,000 inhabitants of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, knew that the big event was taking place in ornate Singha Durbar Hall. Before the glittering assembly of 35 white-uniformed Nepalese generals, His Highness, the Maharaja Padma Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister and Supreme Commander in Chief of Nepal, and Joseph C. Satterthwaite, President Truman's personal representative, were signing exchange notes which established U.S. diplomatic relations and opened trade. Their watches carefully synchronized, the 73-year-old Maharaja and his aides watched the seconds...