Nations may boast good economics, but if the citizenry hasn’t found its artistic calling, they are incomplete.
While our parents might remember buying Anuradha Paudwal cassettes, we literally have bhajans everywhere — in our WhatsApp forwards, in our music download apps and our Bollywood chartbusters.
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Shorts In The Dark | 4-minute read
These are men who have redefined men in a city of harshness, of unpleasantness.
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Shorts In The Dark | 4-minute read
Erratic phone signals, no broadband — one enters the Ziro bubble for four days and forgets about the world.
Many old songs would have some stanzas deleted to make them fit into records. These lost stanzas are now being rediscovered.
The artist will interview four musicians in a five-episode series in the Amazon Prime show Harmony.
During his career, Rafi not only sang in Hindi, but also in English, Dutch, Sinhalese and Arabic among many other languages.
The legend began his career by rendering songs that sounded quite like KL Saigal’s, but emerged from that shadow soon.
Filmy music often ‘borrows’ heavily from Urdu and Hindi classics, and folk music.
Race 3’s Selfish is Bollywood’s latest effort to sell a very poor product in very pretty packaging.
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