Conversations Over Chai

There’s a romance associated with train journeys. There’s a certain nostalgia for the days of my youth when we travelled regularly by train,...

24.02.1924 - 09.05.1998 It's been awhile since I published my post on Talat Mahmood's solos . And my post of Talat-Lata duets ...

15.06.1929 - 31.01.2004 Suraiya was the last of the singer-actresses before ‘playback’ took over completely in the late 1940s. With No...

15.06.1929 - 31.01.2004 While researching songs for my posts on Shamshad Begum , I realised there was another singer whose life and a...

1917-2003 H ow many lyricists of the Golden Age of Hindi music can you name off the bat? Sahir Ludhianvi? Hasrat Jaipuri? Shailendra? ...