What does his handwriting say?
Those Kishoreda fans who may not know about this one, should check out the embedded link in the above photograph. Ambarish Goswami, a Senior Scientist at Honda Research Institute, California, has uploaded Kishore Kumar’s autograph and some rare print media images and covers on his website. The images provide you yet [...]

Kishore, Bappi and Lata. Courtesy CalcuttaWeb.
I went through several mp3 sites and came up with the following list, having mostly sentimental and romantic songs. Most of them are from the post-1980 phase with a very matured KK voice quite evident therein. You may go through the archives of all masters, including KK, Rafi and [...]

Asha Bhonsle - The Heavenly Female Voice!
Something common ran through the trio of Kishore Kumar, RD Burman and Asha Bhonsle. What was this common factor? Was it the ability to break norms, leave aside classical rules and sing without any hesitation? Was it their fondness for the alien music styles, mostly the western ones, to [...]

Amitabh was the only actor who fully used to dub Kishoreda’s songs. You could watch him loudly sing each line with his bulging and tale-telling neck veins. One must say, if Kishoreda had several moods and voices, each aimed at defining one or the other actor, Amitabh had the ability to fully live up to [...]

Kishen Karve, the lonely Hockey warrior from Gujarat, is no more. He passed away recently, after being briefly ill in Ahmedabad at the age of 84. I had met him several times last year while trying to do my own research on why the Indian sports were lagging behind in most international meets. My aim [...]

Praful Dave - The Pride Of Gujarat!

Last night I happened to be at Praful Dave’s live Dayro (the Gujarati way of telling folklores) program at the Town Hall, Ahmedabad. Though, I had no definite info if he was performing there or not, I decided to have a chance and was handsomely rewarded in the due [...]