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Cover Story | Lata Mangeshkar (1929-2022)

When Lata Came to Dinner

She showed me a gramophone record made of gold. All the songs she sang in the UK were on it. Could I give her a letter for the Bombay Customs Commissioner, asking him not to charge any duty as the record had been presented to her?

Lata Mangeshkar with the author and his wife in London, 1974