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The Depths of Deepika

Kaveree Bamzai

Deepika Padukone is reshaping the idea of the Hindi film heroine and of the Indian woman, one movie at a time

Paying It Forward

Kaveree Bamzai

Shakun Batra is happy to describe himself as a team player who is eager to share credit

The Heart of the Song

Rachel Dwyer

Lata sang for all of us. Her voice was instantly recognisable. Whoever the star, she brought us into the heroine’s inner life

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?

Her Own Superstar

MJ Akbar

Listen to ‘Aye Mere Watan ke Logon’ in the silence of solitude and you will break down as everyone else has done at some point or the other

Sense and Sensibility

Kaveree Bamzai

If the weight of the world’s expectations of rectitude from her was too much, Lata never let anyone feel it

The Echo of God

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Lata was much more than the voice of India. She was the voice of humanity, cutting across cultures

Singing the Nation

Vinay Lal

We can begin to have a better conception of the extraordinary place of Lata in the life of the nation when we imagine how she not only embodied the nation but sang the nation