Hum Dono brings back the freshness of a slightly earlier era of Bollywood music. The whole album has that vibe. The song itself feels fuzzy, romantic, like the warmth of new love—like the spring ...

The year saw another flower wilt. It was singer-actor Rishav Tandon, known by the endearing sobriquet Faqeer. He passed away ...

Once-thriving Indo-Pak literary, cultural exchanges fade, leaving a vacuum calling for renewal ...

Byline: Sharmistha JhaThere are no gods in Manav Kaul’s world, only temples, and children forced to live without them. His ...

Delhi celebrated the Urdu language at the Jashn-e-Rekhta Festival, while Haryana Sahitya Akademi hosted a seminar on ...

They sang to packed concerts and their silver voices were widely recognised in the realm of cinema, but not many may know that playback legend Mohammed Rafi and Mallika-e-Ghazal Begum Akhtar also appe ...

For decades, women known as gaanewalis shaped the worlds of thumri, dadra and ghazal, carrying these semi-classical forms through mehfils, salons and royal courts. Curated by Avanti Patel and directed ...

Carnatic violinist R.K. Shriram Kumar reflects on his artistic lineage, women’s contributions to the art, and the spirit of ...

Bollywood songs are more than just a part of cinema—they are part of the emotional vocabulary of an entire nation. For more ...

Khan is arguably the most popular Hindi standup comic on the planet. He has more than 8.3 million subscribers on YouTube. He ...

India’s oldest music label Saregama has agreed to invest 3.25 billion Indian rupees (approx. USD $36 million) in Bhansali ...