The Coffee Table book titled BHULA NAHIN DENA - REMEMBERING K. AMARNATH, a pictorial biography brilliantly compiled and written by Ranjan Sain. It is a ticket to travel back in time and visit the bygone era of Bollywood to experience the life journey of K. Amarnath, who was revered as the most systematic and time-efficient...
Music as an expression must include a local touch and flavor, it’s top on the list of every music streaming platform. To do justice to this, the main global players like Spotify, Amazon Music, localize just like Apple Music. After the launch of Lossless Audio and Dolby Atmos, sometime back, The Up Next Local Artist...
After giving a whole memory of ageless and classic tracks like ‘Paree Hoon Main,’ ‘Kesariya’ and ‘Ab Ke Baras’ in the 90s, Singer Suneeta Rao has returned with a new track ‘Vaada Karo’ on her YouTube Channel. Perhaps it's her first song after a decade. ‘Vaada Karo’ is an anthem that reminds listeners to reflect on...
“Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...” William Wordsworth When feelings become ink, they engrave soul-stirring emotions on paper. That paper, then, is more of a sculpture than scripture! Alam is one such artiste...who makes kites that soar high in the sky and who writes poetry that goes deep within the heart! In his final moments,...
Apni kahani Chhod jaa, kuch to nishani chhod jaa, Kaun jaye is or, tu phir aaye na aaye Mausam beeta jaaye Mausam Beeta jaaye... , The rousing song, set to the tune of a Soviet Red Army March Polyushko Polye orchestrated by Salil Choudhary, seemed to be a perfect metaphor for Bimal Roy’s film making style that...
Jonita Gandhi, an Indo-Canadian singer amongst many Asian singers has been featured as a part of Spotify’s North American Campaign for empowering and enabling Asian artists. Their contribution and involvement in the global music landscape for May. The Canadian campaign tagline said, “We have so much to be proud of.” Now, this is apt for the...
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,...
Santosh Mulekar is a composer, music director and pianist who is taking his family legacy of music ahead. He started his career at a very young age. Initially, he started accompanying his father in his shows, who is an accordion player; his father identified the interest and taught him music and nurtured his dreams. After...
by: Sudnya Patkar, (daughter of a well-known song and solo violinist Pt. Gajananrao Karnad pens a life portrait of her illustrious father). Pandit Gajanan Madhav Karnad was born in a middle-class Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family on 28th April 1923. A distant relative visiting the Karnad family noticed the child would just not let go of...
