From Prasun Sonwalkar
Oxford, May 18 (PTI) The name 'Amitabh Bachchan' does more for India abroad than other known symbols of India's soft power such as the Taj Mahal, curry or the Kama Sutra, according to Rachel Dwyer, an expert on Indian cinema and culture.
Delivering the Annual Distinguished Ford Lecture 2011, Dwyer, a professor based at the London-based School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), said that Bachchan was a "great communicator of moral sentiment" through films that had won fans far beyond India.
Bachchan, who was on a visit here on Tuesday, was the respondent to Dwyer's lecture titled 'Amitabh Bachchan: Emotion and the Star in Hindi Film', delivered to a nearly 300-strong audience mainly comprising students and people of Indian origin in Oxford.
The lecture was sponsored by Alfred Ford and family, who support the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS).