Conversations Over Chai

1933 - As long as music lives Pic courtesy: Asha Bhosle's Instagram  My earlier post was on ‘ very-unlike-Asha’ songs. Which, for those ...

Pic courtesy: @FilmHistoryPics - Twitter As I mentioned in my earlier post, this has been a period of immersion in Lata Mangeshkar’s songs....

My previous post came about because Hemant Kumar’s demise coincided with Dev Anand’s birthday. Coincidentally, nine out of ten songs in th...

08.09.1933 - T his post has been a long time coming. First, it was because I was waiting for an ‘occasion’; then, it was because I did...

I wrote a post on sensuous songs , songs that I thought were erotic without being raunchy or vulgar. This is its sister-post - songs of ...

26.09.1923 - 04.12.2011 My introduction to Dev Anand, the man, came when I was a trainee journalist with The Sunday Observer in Bom...

26.09.1923 - 03-12-2011 A man who truly knows how to live in the present, and work toward the future. Who, in his eighties, irrespec...