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Eye color. Brown. Padma Parvati Lakshmi ( Tamil pronunciation: [ˈpɐd̪maː ˈlɐkʂmi]; born September 1, 1970) [1] is an Indian-American author, model, activist, and television host. Born in India, Lakshmi immigrated to the United States as a child and was raised in California. She became a model before embarking on a career in television.
Coupled to the Jauhar, the Rajput men died fighting on the battlefield. Many other written and oral tradition versions of her life exist in Hindu and Jain traditions. These versions differ from the Sufi poet Jayasi's version. For example, Rani Padmini's husband Ratan Sen dies fighting the siege of Alauddin Khalji, and thereafter she leads a jauhar.
Padma Lakshmi — who just made her final appearance as host of Top Chef — is reflecting on her former marriage to author Salman Rushdie. Following the publication of his 1988 novel The Satanic ...
Salman Rushdie. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL ( / sʌlˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi /; [2] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. [3] His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the ...
Padma Lakshmi is speaking out about ex-husband Salman Rushdie after the Satanic Verses author was stabbed on Friday during a literary event at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y. The ...
The “Top Chef” star spoke for the first time about Rushdie's “nightmare” experience of being stabbed onstage during an event last week.
Padmini Ramachandran (12 June 1932 – 24 September 2006) [1] [2] [3] was an Indian actress and trained Bharatanatyam dancer, who acted in over 250 Indian films. [1] She acted in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Russian language films. Padmini, with her elder sister Lalitha and her younger sister Ragini, were called the "Travancore sisters".
In this op-ed, adapted from a speech she gave at a Planned Parenthood gala, the author, activist, and television host reflects on how her mom sought care after a car crash, and how that experience ...