Hindi Cinema: Singing in the Rain

Rachel Dwyer

Our columnist returns to the classic monsoon songs of Hindi cinema. A seasonal reminder of love and longing, desire and sorrow

Janice Pariat

Tarun Bhartiya’s documentary is a celebration of the essential Northeast whose music carries the sighs and sorrows of the soil

Mayank Shekhar

How Bollywood’s Punjabi inflection unifies India

Neha Malude

Remembering those immortal Rajesh Khanna hits that were not sung by his usual playback artiste Kishore Kumar

Vijay Parthasarathy

Can playing great music on the radio or the internet tempt people into buying songs they’ve never heard before?

As a country, we love songs we can sing along with. Perhaps because that takes us back to being the cool young kids we once were

Avantika Bhuyan

Rajasthan’s folk music might be endangered, but its causes are ever relevant: caste and women’s empowerment

Manju Sara Rajan

In this association of engineers, software professionals and doctors, whistling is a group activity.

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