How my Mittoo mian remains so very quiet when the music plays
MUSICALLY YOURS Don't know about you, but I loop the YouTube version of birds chirping not...
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Whose father, what goes? How many of us really care about how we’re ravaging the planet?
THIS TOO SHALL PASS Apparently, there’s some fool out there crowing in delight at having “created”...
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Gandhi’s favorite dhun, Vaishnavo Janato, as a qawwali, Sufi style, quite an incredible experience
MUSICALLY YOURS My memory of another of Mahatma Gandhi's favorite dhun, Vaishnavo Janato, is linked...
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A society in peril due to social media & how it’s so easy to be swayed by mere rhetoric
THIS TOO SHALL PASS An interesting case came into the limelight recently. A young female lecturer...
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Devotional songs that were close to the heart of Mahatma Gandhi
MUSICALLY YOURS With Independence Day round the corner, I got sucked into a patriotic fervour....
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If Music be the Food of Love, Play On…
THIS TOO SHALL PASS This week’s column has been triggered by a couple of random incidents...
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Boycott Alia or domestic violence? What shall we ultimately choose?
‘Darlings’, the debut directorial venture of Alia Bhatt, is receiving an unexpected response, not at the...
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Bihar in big push to religious tourism in post-Covid revival efforts
From Patna The Bihar government, in the post-Covid revival steps, has given a fresh impetus to...
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Biz & booze go together. And uncorking champagne a ritual for contract winners in corporate world. Right?
BUSINESS MONITOR Booze and business go together. Uncorking champagne is a ritual for winning a...
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Folks, tell us who’s the best: Mohanlal or Mohanbabu?
MUSICALLY YOURS Hang on. What's this? Why pit the superstar of Malayalam filmdom with the Telugu...
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