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A R and Ananya Birla gear up for Indian Olympians at Tokyo

Making an exceptional collaboration of sorts, the master of Indian music and composition, A.R. Rahman, and Ananya Birla team up on the record as the composer-producer duo. The mesmerising track will have English vocals that set up a strong message of unity and optimism, spelling a withdrawal or a retreat of COVID19 led excruciating times as...

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उस युग पुरुष के कितने रूप – संपादक, अनुवादक, कोशकार: अरविंद कुमार

अरविंद कुमार वास्तव में युग पुरुष थे। पत्रकार, संपादक, कला-नाटक-फ़िल्म समालोचक, अनुवादक और कोशकार। एक तरफ पत्रकारिता, दूसरी तरफ शब्द संपदा के प्रति समर्पण। उनकी शख्सियत के यह दो सबसे बड़े पहलू हैं, जिसे युगों तक एक उत्तम उदाहरण के तौर पर प्रस्तुत किया जाता रहेगा। बतौर संपादक अरविंद कुमार की शख्सियत एक युग को प्रभावित...

Yoga and Music DAY

Indian Music and Yoga

I was an aspiring musician, and was practicing diligently, to become better at my art. one of my fellow music classmate friends, who was a Yoga master, often insisted that, by following a few Yoga practices, I could become an even better musician. At his insistence, I had started doing some Aasans, but I did...

Ajit Singh

A Musician who took Beatles for tea passes away

Ajit Singh was an excellent musician. He performed shows abroad and made a niche for himself in All India Radio.  He owned a music shop in Uttarakhand. He befriended the Beatles during their trip to Rishikesh about a half-century ago. Can you imagine befriending someone randomly and making a memory out of it? The fantastic four...

Raam Laxman

Raam Laxman To Stay In Our Hearts Forever

Music composer Vijay Patil a.k.a Laxman of the duo Raam Laxman was a veteran. He was widely known for composing the music for films like Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, Hum Saath Saath Hain, 100 days among others.  Vijay Patil was introduced in the industry by Dada Kondke, he used to compose Marathi songs...

BTS Butter Breaking Records

BTS ‘Butter’ breaking records

Who else could you think except for BTS to mark up with another ground-breaking record? The group outdid themselves by setting a record on Friday, 21st May 2021 for most YouTube views in the first 24- hours of the release with the new English song ‘Butter’. Touching approximately 113 million views by midnight ET, estimated by...

Sukoon – A Fund Raising Concert

Organized by Euphonic Masala, an Indian band based in Singapore, SUKOON is a fundraising online concert to support Covid relief efforts in India. All funds raised by this initiative will be donated to Singapore Universities Mission Oxygen (SUMO) fundraising campaign to buy oxygen concentrators for India. SUKOON is an online event which will include music performances...

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Tabla Had Its Electronic Version – Kuljit Bhamra

Tell us something about your musical journey. How did you get initiated into music? My mother Mohinder Kaur Bhamra is a well-known Punjabi folk singer. When we first arrived in the UK in 1961, she was requested to sing Shabads in the London Gurdwara. I was only two years old. In those days, there were hardly any tabla...

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Ascendancy in Bollywood Music

The year was 1963, I was an 8-year-old studying in the Indian heartland of Gwalior, growing up in a family that did not allow viewing movies except for the mythological ones; the same time period when 'Harischandra Taramati' and 'Sant Gyaneshwar' were running houseful every day and every show. On the other end, Radio Ceylon,...