In a Tamil Brahmin household, mornings aren’t complete without the holy trinity of filter coffee, The Hindu, and MS Subbulakshmi’s “Suprabhatam”.

Any good poet should be able to touch your heart – but Shiv Kumar Batalvi had the ability to rip it out of your chest, and then place it back there gently.

Dushyant Kumar’s poetry freed me from the cage of square cubicles and straight lives that the Gulzar School of poetry, dripping with flowery dew and the warmth of unreality, never could. My struggles were personal, and so it turned out was the language of my resistance, learned through his poetry, so irregular and unlike anything you’d have come across.

No matter what your mood, there’s a Bappi Da composition to go with it. Our desi disco legend is absolutely irreplaceable. Today is his birthday and I don’t know about you, but I’ll be dancing – unironically – to “Koi yahan aha nache nache”.

Sheetal Sathe and Sachin Mali were declared Naxalites in 2011 for giving voice to the Dalit community. They’ve paid a heavy price, but they continue to sing their songs of resistance.

I grew up on my mother’s radio-ordained playlist of Lata Mangeshkar and Mohd Rafi. But as a teenager, when every girl in school fawned over the Jonas Brothers and Taylor Swift, I, too embarrassed to ask my classmates the names of the songs they were singing, turned to Google. It eventually dawned on me: I didn’t care about fitting in.

On Amitabh Bachchan's 75th birthday, a song dedicated to his legendary tweets. And we have a humble request: Please reply to our SMS.

Awkward Bong is LIVE on Arré Sessions with his guitar, so tune in at 10 PM for some acoustic jams!

On this day, 47 years ago, Jimi Hendrix left to kiss the sky. Today, we're revisiting the Hendrix experience!

Seventy years after Independence, some choose to rewrite history. We chose to rewrite the alphabet. Presenting a brand-new, updated A to Z for India at 70

Happy birthday, Rahul Baba! We hope you at least remember your nursery rhymes.

There is a tribe of parents that subjects their guests to the talent of their kids, even when said guests have no desire to be subjected. My parents were the leaders of that tribe.

The first time I met Amrita Pritam, she told me that a smoke is one of the few pleasures of life. I knew then that Amrita Pritam was the writer – and the woman – I wanted to be.

Raja Kumari has no time for the haters and is never going to stop making music.

We kick off the #ArreSiren Interviews with our festival curator, the inimitable Zila Khan. Find out if she's an #UssTypeKiLadki or not!

Catch Bombay rockers Cityhaze as they crank out some fresh originals tonight on Arré Sessions.

Singer-songwriter Aarifah Rebello takes centre stage this week on Arre Sessions!

Join us on an acoustic journey with singer-songwriter Vernon Noronha as he jams out with us, LIVE on Arré Sessions!

In Mumbai, revellers dance to the the tunes of drummer girls as they celebrate Lord Ganesha. Meet Vainavi Mohite, one of the city's youngest Nashik Dhol players, as she preps for all the fanfare.

It's time to celebrate the King of Pop's birthday with an Arré Shuffle playlist of his best hits. Bring in Michael Jackson's big day with some little-known trivia

Celebrate 70 years of freedom with the Sounds of the Soil playlist, featuring songs from the four corners of the country.

Shuffling between LA and Mumbai, Zoya is a singer and storyteller in equal parts. Watch her perform exclusively for Earworm's maiden Arré Sessions.

What Bob Dylan created is not literature. It is the soundtrack to life. But literature, is life itself.

Dressed to the nines, he’s invisible in a plush hotel lobby. It takes a little chit-chat for Ivan Rodericks to strike a chord with his tales of Bombay, The Beatles, and Beirut.

How does a video with petals, magic wands and a grown man wearing gender-ambiguous clothing, go viral? Shah’s “Angel” seems to pose more questions than answers.