The great sarod maestro and musician Ali Akbar Khan told me once this about Rahul Dev Burman, “Pancham (R D Burman) could pretty much do anything with music. He just lived music.” That was sometime in 1999, at Khan’s music academy in San Rafael, California where I had gone to interview him.
Category: Ghazala
‘Do not be taken in by the deceptions (lures) of existence’, Ghalib
Mayank Chhaya- In some sense, Mirza Ghalib is to poetry what Albert Einstein is to physics. People have a clear sense of their genius but only rather amorphous comprehension of it. There are, of course, millions in India and around the world who may be able to recite a verse or two or a dozen […]
India more vulnerable to climate change: NIE report
The United States has named India as one ‘country of concern,’ along with 10 others, that the American intelligence community believes will bear the brunt of global warming, enduring intensifying and more frequent heat waves and droughts, and water and power scarcity.
Four Indian Americans among history-making victors on Election Day
indica News Bureau- Four Indian Americans — a history-making Muslim woman and a former White House technology policy advisor — won state and local elections on Tuesday. Indian American Ghazala Hashmi, a former community college professor, made history by becoming first Muslim woman to be elected to the Virginia state Senate, while Suhas Subramanyam, who […]