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When people talk about prolific lyricists in Hindi cinema, Sameer Anjaan is not just part of the conversation — he defines it. With a Guinness World Record for writing the highest number of film songs ...

In his tearful speech, Lumbera lamented that Filipinos can hardly miss "a man they barely knew." The genius, however, never sought worldly recompense in his quest for artistic excellence. He always ...

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Today, January 6th, the maverick composer AR Rahman, the repository of raga renown, turns 59. Interestingly, Rahman’s son ...

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...

In his novels, poems and stories, Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla excelled at portraits of simple but emotionally complex ...