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Music A to Z: India’s New Alphabet
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
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Music Jai Bhim – OST – The Beats of Dalit Resistance
Listen to the original soundtrack of Jai Bhim: The Beats of Dalit Resistance, a musical-documentary on singers Sheetal Sathe and Sachin Mali, who were declared Naxalites in 2011 for giving voice to the Dalit community.
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Music How Taylor Swift Bottled 2020’s Ennui in Two Sublime Albums
Taylor Swift is the modern queen of yearning, offering up a folk fantasy for a new generation in “evermore”. Who better to come forward as the voice of 2020, a year that we have all lived in the subjunctive tense, thinking of what might have been?
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Music What Lata Mangeshkar Means To Millennials, Who Did Not Grow Up Listening to Her Songs
Lata Mangeshkar’s voice defined my grandmother’s youth. I belong to a generation that often rejects new Hindi film chartbusters in favour of indie and international music. Yet, after the last shot is downed and the last EDM track played, it is Tai’s tender “Lag Jaa Gale” that can still make a millennial emotional at four in the morning.
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Music Zoya Live | Arré Sessions
Shuffling between LA and Mumbai, Zoya is a singer and storyteller in equal parts. Watch her perform exclusively for Earworm's maiden Arré Sessions.
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Music Shiv Kumar Batalvi: Poet of Constant Sorrow
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.
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Doordarshan Vs Netflix | Rap Battle ft. Chote Miyan & Deeptanshu Mokashi
The ultimate DISS is here. Doordarshan Vs Netflix | Rap Battle ft. Chote Miyan & Deeptanshu Mokashi. Drop your comments on who is winning the Rap Battle!
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Music Every Time You Listen to Mohammed Rafi, You Realise He Belongs Everywhere, to Everyone
If there were to be a physical manifestation of what “being timeless” looks like, Mohammed Rafi would be it. “Tribute to Mohammed Rafi” is a permanent fixture in most taxis in Mumbai and you’ll find his famous classics on the playlist of a backpacking hipster in Himachal.
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Music MS Subbulakshmi, the Soundtrack to Every Morning in Tamil Homes
In a Tamil Brahmin household, mornings aren’t complete without the holy trinity of filter coffee, The Hindu, and MS Subbulakshmi’s “Suprabhatam”.
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Music Rishi Kapoor’s Greatest Hits on Twitter
On Rishi Kapoor’s 65th birthday, we made a song on his legendary Tweets
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Music The Love Song of Amrita Pritam
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.
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Music To Speak of Sahir, Was to Speak of Amrita: The Poet of Unfulfilled Love
Sahir Ludhianvi and Amrita Pritam’s tale encompassed euphoria, misery, and everything in between. Yet, when the vagaries of life drew them apart, they chose to craft an alternative reality with another – a love that is liberating. When I first fell in love with a girl, a love that I knew would go nowhere, it was Sahir’s words that I turned to.
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Music U2 India Concert: A Retirement Pit Stop for Rock Stars Past Their Prime?
For many, the announcement of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees U2’s first- ever concert in India is the end of a long wait. But what’s also true is that U2’s maiden Indian appearance is coming around 15 years too late.
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Music Remember The Time: Is Michael Jackson Too Omnipresent to Cancel?
Michael Jackson would have celebrated his 62nd birthday had it not been for his surprise death 10 years ago. The sexual assault allegations against him have made conversations about him today as relevant as they were 30 years ago. We might stop listening to his music, but can we stop talking about him?
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Music Mozart for the Classes, Weather for the Masses: Life Inside Kolkata’s Akashvani Studio
I began my first job as a presenter for Yuva Bharati, the AIR’s “youthful” section, in the late ’90s. The studios were nothing like the zany spaces of Tumhari Sullu but more like retro bunkers from a sci-fi movie set. And there were massive BBC books that guided us on how to pronounce Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
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Music Mann Ka Radio: How My Mother’s Playlist Taught Me to Find My Own Frequency
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.
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Music Aag Jalni Chahiye: Dushyant Kumar, the Poet of a Thousand Modest Mutinies
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.
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Music Catch Kaneez Surka Live at Arré Siren
Catch Kaneez Surka live in Mumbai at the Arre Siren Festival on March 10 & 11. You want to get down there to celebrate women!
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Music Jai Bhim – The Beats of Dalit Resistance
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.
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Music Every Time You Listen to Mohammed Rafi, You Realise He Belongs Everywhere, to Everyone
If there were to be a physical manifestation of what “being timeless” looks like, Mohammed Rafi would be it. “Tribute to Mohammed Rafi” is a permanent fixture in most taxis in Mumbai and you’ll find his famous classics on the playlist of a backpacking hipster in Himachal.
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