MUMBAI, (IANS) – Pankaj Udhas earned his first accolade as a singer when he was 11 years old. He sang the patriotic song ‘Ae mere watan ke logon’ at a public event in his hometown Rajkot when the Sino ...

With his velvety, soulful and ethereal voice, marked by a slight quaver, Talat Mahmood was well suited for the elegant poetic compositions that are the bedrock of Hindi film music, and rose to great ...

By pointing toward "the rare nests of vast birds," the poet hints toward an environment and a vanishing grandeur, making the poem relevant in the context of today's ecological crisis. ​In Alok ...