Conversations Over Chai

14.07.1917-16.11.1967 Roshanlal Nagrath. Or, to refer to him by the name he became famous – Roshan. Anyone who loves old Hindi film music wi...

01. 06. 1929 – 03. 05. 1981 When I’m asked about my favourite Hindi film heroines, I usually have Meena Kumari top the list, followed...

I had originally meant this to be the second of twin posts. You see, I spend quite a lot time thinking up different themes for my posts. B...

In our country, our whole existence, our lifestyle, our cultural fabric is wedded to music. Our life, our birth, is wedded to music. O...

Literature and cinema are filled with tales of lookalike twins - so identical in their looks and even their mannerisms that their nearest ...

Photo credit: Indianexpress.com There has been an inordinate delay between my last post on Talat Mahmood , and this one. Partly, it is...

24.02.1924 - 09.05.1998 Long childhood hours were companionably spent with my father, he smoking one cigarette after the other, readin...