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Today, as everyone celebrates Friendship Day across the world, we bring you top 25 Bollywood friendship songs in Hindi that define the bond you share with your friend for life! Time to relive the memories with friends with these tracks for background score. We are sure you and your best friends will resonate with these dosti songs. Happy Friendship Day! …

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. Patriotism is a sentiment that could crush the strongest boulders of malice, a sentiment as gentle as a wave in the ocean that brings along a whoosh of affinity to commemorate the diversity of culture. It is not a feeling …

राहुल देव बर्मन रोचक जानकारियां राहुल देव बर्मन (27 जून 1939 – 4 जनवरी 1994) हिन्दी फिल्मों के एक प्रसिद्ध संगीतकार थे। इन्हें पंचम या ‘पंचमदा’ नाम से भी पुकारा जाता था। मशहूर संगीतकार सचिन देव बर्मन व उनकी पत्नी मीरा की ये इकलौती संतान थे। अपनी अद्वितीय सांगीतिक प्रतिभा के कारण इन्हें विश्व के सर्वश्रेष्ठ संगीतकारों में एक माना …

On the occasion of Women’s Day, tune into these empowering Songs on Women Empowerment from Bollywood… Every year March 8 is observed as International Women’s Day. The whole world takes this to celebrate and appreciate the contribution of women towards the society. This day is dedicated for all women be it a daughter, sister, mother or wife. There are numerous …

Over two decades ago, shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan heard a young woman singer, Soma Ghosh, at the ISKCON Auditorium here, and invited her to a musical ‘jugalbandi’. Almost petrified by the unexpected invitation from a towering personality like Khan Sa’b — as the world addressed him — Soma didn’t dare take up the gauntlet. Six months later, Khan Sa’b, …

Shillong, often described as “India’s rock capital”, is leading the way in honouring the American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. On Sunday, the Meghalaya capital reverberated with Dylan numbers — “Mr. Tambourine Man”, “Blowin’ in the Wind”, “The Times They Are a-Changin” and many more at the downtown Café Shillong and Cloud 9. …

Among the boldest lines in Hindi film songs from a landmark epic where an imperial courtesan, who has already dared the monarch with her declaration of loving without fear, goes on to question curbs on women — remember the bewitchingly defiant Madhubala ask “Parda nahi jab koi Khuda se, bandon se parda karna kya?” It comes from no radical revolutionary …

Sarod maestro Brij Narayan opines discipline is the common factor that unites all classical arts A sarod is what accompanies classical artiste Brij Narayan on his travels within the country and abroad. On a brief stopover in the city on the invite of the Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademy, the maestro, who took up music following in the footsteps of his …

Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, who has enthralled audiences all across the globe with his mellifluous music, is concerned that people are today more interested in fusion than pure classical music. “Today people are more interested to see collaborations. Why are people more interested in fusion, what is the reason and why is it happening? It is a very big …

Internationally acclaimed sitarist Anoushka Shankar says Indian classical music has a strong following abroad, but it’s “such a shame” that the genre’s popularity hasn’t translated in the country of its origin. The daughter of late sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar earned her fifth Grammy nomination this week for her album “Home”, which reaffirms Indian classical music’s hold in the West. …