Tag: Music

Bhimsen Joshi: A voice that brought classical music to the masses

Originally written for DNA: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_bhimsen-joshi-a-voice-that-brought-classical-music-to-the-masses_1498722 The Indian music community suffered a massive loss today when Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi breathed his last. “It’s the end of an era,” said santoor player and associate Satish Vyas. Vyas, son of the…

RIP MJ

When you wake up, you happen to check facebook for birthdays and you read RIP Michael Jackson in your timeline, you know it’s a sad sad sad day. I went numb. How can he die? He used to live in…

Drowned In Gulaal!

The timing of Gulaal’s release is just fantastic. Right after Holi and just before elections. Gulaal tells the story of a nobody, Dileep Singh. This nobody is a colourless, passionless character who is a student who looks like a professor.…

Random thoughts

So, I was super busy thorugh the last 3 weeks. I did blog about stuff but completely forgot to record stuff that happened through August. I have been trying to recap the month of August but the amount of times…

July July

July was fabulous. I was on my toes with work and yet I ended up watching a lot of films, reading some books and enjoying quality time with family and friends. So here is a quick recap: Films: It was…