singer

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

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

Lata Mangeshkar (1929-2022): A Voice of Grace and Dignity

Kaveree Bamzai

She was the voice we all lived and loved by

SP Balasubrahmanyam (1946-2020): A Versatile Voice

V Shoba

His 40,000 songs became the background score of the lives of millions of listeners

The Magic in Mohammad Rafi

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Remembering the legendary singer on his death anniversary

Little Richard (1932-2020): The King and Queen

Lhendup G Bhutia

Unapologetically Black and queer, he set the terms for a new genre

Usha Uthup: Still Rocking

Rushati Mukherjee

The sensational fifty years of Usha Uthup

Tuitions in Vrindavan: When a Russian Indologist taught George Harrison Hindi

Ajay Kamalakaran

When she agreed to teach the legendary English singer Hindi in the 1970s, India scholar Natalya Sazanova had no idea who the Beatles were. Over four months of lessons, George Harrison preferred to keep his fame a secret