He started his career at 13 and won a Grammy nomination at 17. Then he went silent for five years and finally won a Grammy at 28.

Mumbai’s iconic Mehboob Studios resonated with some top-class blues music at the Mahindra Blues Festival held over February 5 and 6. Luke Kenny and Mojo Jukebox opened the festival with a guitar rendition of Beethoven’s Fur Elise. Besides that, there is not much that can be said about the band apart from the fact that they didn’t quite fit into the whole bluesy mood.

What, apart from a slap, can confuse Harbhajan Singh? It’s the ungli mein tingli, tingli mein ungli technique. Stumped?

For a city that witnesses a plethora of cultural activities and nurtures talents across genres, the audience has always been discerning and supportive. One would imagine a venue like the NCPA, the torchbearers of culture and art in the city, to be the frontrunners in nurturing a tolerant crowd as well.

The only Indian to win the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the UK, Vijay Nair, a college dropout, has managed some of the biggest names in India’s rock music scene — Zero, Pentagram, Pin Drop

You cannot mistake that voice — its depth, its crispness and its unwavering clarity.

She’s insane. Nothing describes author Rupa Gulab more appropriately. It takes almost nothing to trigger a roar of laughter and if that’s not an incentive to do an interview, I don’t know what is.