ALKA YAGNIK: No stranger to fame
She’s no stranger to fame. Alka Yagnik is something of a Queen Midas - most songs she touches turn into gold. Probably the first au courant playback singer (and they don’t come any more au courant than her today).. Cont...


The ‘poetic’ composer
There are composers and composers. Some largely prefer lyrics written to their tunes or metres (Shanker-Jaikishan, the Burmans) though they can set even the most absurd (Mera kuch saaman/ R.D. Burman) or complex lyrics to music.. Cont...

MALKIT SINGH The man who pop(ed) bhangra
The original singing Sardar is back. The one who started the bhangra-pop revolution not only in India, but all over the world. Remember Tutak tutak, the song which made you break into a bhangra step the very first time you heard it?Cont...

SD BURMAN Dada and I..
Remembering S.D. Burman on his 25th death anniversary, which fell on October 31...Cont...