Conversations Over Chai

30.08-1923-14.12.1966 I spent a lot of time when I was growing up listening to Hindi songs. My favourite songs were those whose words reson...

...sang another legend, Dev Anand , to his beautiful heroine in Hum Dono . Ke dil abhi bhara nahin... 02.09.1941 - 25.12.2015 This...

I began this series, The Divas , with Sharmila Tagore , who I thought best epitomised the category - of actresses with talent who also k...

Courtesy: atithi.com The rains are here. ( 'Here' meaning the Kerala monsoons have finally arrived. ) And with it comes the s...

I've never been a hopeless romantic, though I often looked at lovestories with a feeling that bordered on the wistful. Are there rea...

28.09.1929 If I found it difficult to write about Kishore Kumar, how much more difficult is it to write about Lata Mangeshkar? What ca...

19-11-1922 - 5-9-1995 If September 1923 saw the birth of Devsaab, then another September seven decades plus later saw the death of a C...