Eric Christensen grew up in San Francisco in the 1950s and remembers his mother, “like a lot of women then, being transfixed by Korla Pandit on television. He wore a jeweled turban and had these ...

Marin has been home to some fascinating characters over the decades, but probably no one has been as mysterious and exotic as Korla Pandit, an organ-playing, turban-wearing sex symbol of 1950s daytime ...

In the category of unusual entertainers, there are few who could hold a candle to Korla Pandit. There was the jeweled turban. The hypnotizing gaze into the TV camera. And the exotic organ playing that ...

It often happens that powerful truths are masked in fiction and illusion. In the case of Korla Pandit, dubbed the “Godfather of Exotica,” pretext defined the subtext of deep personal truths. Sept. 29 ...

In the early 1950s, thousands of Bay Area housewives were mesmerized by a handsome young organ-playing Indian sage who gazed seductively at them out of their console TVs. The dreamy-eyed keyboardist ...

Exotica icon Korla Pandit was a Hammond organ virtuoso with a signature look: Nehru jackets, smoky eye makeup, and bejeweled turbans. For their intriguing profile, codirectors John Turner and Eric ...

The Boone County Historical Society Museum and former Columbian John Redd, who used the stage name Korla Pandit during a 20-year television career in Hollywood, will be featured at 8 p.m. Thursday on ...

In mid-20th century America, the turban was a tool that people of color used for "confounding the color lines," writes Manan Desai, board member of the South Asian American Digital Archive. At the ...

Now, we have come across a story from the Jim Crow era about cultural mimicry between people of color. In mid-20th century America, the turban was a tool that people of color used for "confounding the ...