Somebody forwarded the following jpg in Gujarati tonight. It was fun reading through, but so did come along mixed emotions. I don’t know what the basic schooling reminds to you or not, but my early days at the Baherampura Hindi Prathmik Shala run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (mid 70s-1981) came back calling to my [...]

I have several more Gujarati Gazals and old movie songs by Rafi, Talat Mahmood, Hemant Kumar, Meena Kapoor and Manna Dey. But they can make one asleep if we played them here. The only exception was this one by Manna Dey:

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I write this in the backdrop of the latest slump by Indian cricket, and the controversies involving two Indian athletes - Monica Devi and Sania Mirza - at the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Indian sports - not only cricket - has been like this only since we gained independence. I recently had a chat with some sportsmen [...]

I wanted to start speaking about Rafi having had posted so much on Kishore in the last few months. Let us begin with the following song list, the first in a series of many similar to come on Rafi and others. Rafi was the original playback maestro. All others only followed him. While Sehgal fans [...]

Deewana Kishore Kumar And Deewana Me!
In a nation of so much internal strife and negatives, very few names can instill the kind of joy and passion Kishore Midas Kumar does. He belongs to that rare breed, which could hop over man-made religious, linguistic and ideological boundaries and leave their audiences fufilled and joyous. I do [...]