Lalitha Suhasini
Nasreen Munni Kabir manages to draw out the shy AR Rahman, though this biography lacks warmth
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Delhi wasn’t quite ready for the extravagant genius of The Prodigy. But it rose to the occasion. Literally too
The image Mansur projected for the camera was no different from his usual spontaneous self, says photographer Parthiv Shah.
There are no hardships in the world of music, only pleasure, Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur had once said. For all who knew this great khayal singer, a man for whom music was religion itself, nothing could ring more true. On his birth centenary, there couldn’t be a more appropriate tribute to the man and his genius than this article written for his 60th birthday by his friend and eminent Marathi playwright and actor PL Deshpande.
Decades after we banished LPs, collectors and newbies confess that vinyl is spinning its way back into their lives as audio-grade discs re-mastered to sound better.