Bollywood has a history of great Bhajans for Lord Ram, Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva. The great melodies of the genre Oh duniya ke rakhwale (Mohd Rafi, Baiju Bawra) and Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Lata ...

Late Lata Mangeshkar recorded thousands of songs in over 36 Indian languages and a few foreign languages over the course of her seven-decade career, though her work was primarily known in Hindi and ...

It is no secret that Lata thought very highly of Madan Mohan as composer. And Madan Mohan lived for Lata’s voice, one that could convey just the right shade of inhibition, which was the hallmark of ...

Something unprecedented happened at All India Radio’s stations whenever this hit song was played. Their phone lines got jammed with people calling to know the name of the singer. The record carried ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The soaring, silvery voice of a Bollywood playback singer was the soundtrack to millions of lives, a thread ...