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Highway to musical heavenHighway to musical heaven

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If a music festival manages to stay in your mind 24 hours later after it’s over, then it truly made an impact for sure. Let’s get things straight.

Centrestage opens for Mumbai drama

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Theatre gets bigger and broader in the literal sense at Centrestage, the theatre festival which commences at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai from November 18 to November 27.

The diva dances on

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At first, you are simply taken by her sheer poise and the shape of her beautiful kajal-smeared eyes.

Finding his music after 30 yrs

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For someone who took 30 years to realise music, the journey of his life has been quite a roller-coaster ride. “I took three decades to figure out the kind the music I wanted to make,” says Yuri Honing, who is counted among Holland’s top saxophone players.

‘Justice for my dead dad’

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My father, Syed Mohammad Yousuf died last month. They claim this happened when he was in police custody, but I refuse to believe that.

Gypsies from the west

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One look at her and you know she is not your usual musician who would give dollops of knowledge in terms of musical jargons. The beauty lies in her inability to clearly define the style of music of her band Rupa and the April Fishes. Her eclectic band of myriad shades and tunes comes up with a “stew” of multifarious rhythm through its first few minutes of presence on stage.

Farewell to king of ghazals

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The demise of a man, who enchanted us with his mellifluous expanse of music, has left a void in millions of hearts worldwide. Ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh, a man who looked at the brighter side of life and gave hope to scores of his fans

What is wrong with our security system?

Going by the most recent attack in Delhi, which was only a few months after the heinous serial blasts in Mumbai, it has been established without a doubt that India is currently the most vulnerable to

Grand master of shot stories

Bollywood’s ace fashion photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha touched lives and careers of so many actors and actresses.

A look through Homai’s lenses

If it hadn’t been for her courage and resilience, we might not have seen some of the most memorable moments of the Independence era. India’s first photo woman journalist Homai Vyarawalla reminisces about the days when

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.