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TopicBollywood lyricist

Topic: Bollywood lyricist

Ishq Hai is India’s top bridal entry song. Lyricist Raj Shekhar gave it soul

Raj Shekhar has penned Bollywood’s biggest love anthems, from Ishq Hai and Aise Kyun to Pehle Bhi Main. His romantic lyrics keep finding their way into wedding playlists and Reels.

Anand Bakshi’s lyrics captured love, loss, yearning for home—They made him a ‘people’s writer’

Anand Bakshi understood the importance of storytelling. Before writing any song for a film, he would ask the director to narrate the plot—again and again.

Rajinder Krishan was Bollywood’s ‘luckiest’ lyricist. Hit songs to horse races

Lyricist Rajinder Krishan kept out of the limelight but the audience knew his words by heart at Ibaadat Foundation’s sold-out Daastaan-e-Rajinder Krishan show at Delhi's Kamani auditorium.

Adipurush dialogue writer Manoj Muntashir is an Amethi boy. Loves Urdu, boasts Brahmin pride

Manoj Muntashir has managed to achieve the impossible — bring together India’s political Right and Centre and achieve bipartisan consensus on how Ram is being denigrated.

5 songs to remember Shakeel Badayuni, Hindi cinema’s romantic poet

Ahead of Shakeel Badayuni's 105th birth anniversary on 3 August, we look back on his remarkable career and his unabashedly romantic soul.

Anand Bakshi almost gave up on Bollywood. Then came Bhagwan, Bhala Admi, a ticket collector

In ‘Nagme, Kisse, Baatein, Yaadein’, Rakesh Anand Bakshi gives readers an intimate peek into the life of the soldier-turned-lyricist Anand Bakshi.

5 songs to remember Shakeel Badayuni, who gave Hindi film music its best romantic poems

Shakeel Badayuni, the bard of love worked with the best of the best and delivered some of Hindi cinema’s most stirring love songs, in movies like Mighal-e-Azam and Chaudhvin Ka Chand.

‘Credit De Do Yaar’, sing Hindi movie lyricists as they call out music streaming platforms

In a video released Friday, 15 lyricists from the Hindi film industry have come together demanding they be credited properly for their work on music streaming platforms.

Veteran lyricist Yogesh, who penned songs for ‘Anand’ and ‘Rajnigandha’, dies at 77

Known by his first name in film circles, Yogesh Gaur worked with pioneers of 'middle cinema' like Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee in the 1970s

Jan Nisar Akhtar — Bollywood lyricist who was ‘poet in a real sense’

On his birth anniversary, ThePrint explores the life and love of Jan Nisar Akhtar.

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Africa’s mineral wealth meets India’s energy goals. Here’s how New Delhi can pursue trade

India is acquiring critical mineral assets in Congo, Tanzania, and Mozambique and has secured 9,000 sq km in Zambia for copper and cobalt exploration, adding a new dimension to its resource diplomacy.

Himachal braces for ‘toughest’ yr. How state’s budget aims to deal with soaring debt, falling grants

Of Rs 58,514-crore budget, 67% is earmarked for salary, pension, interest payments & debt repayment, leaving limited funds for development.

Don’t arm ‘terror sponsor’ Pakistan, Rajnath tells Netherlands counterpart as India raises terror pitch

Terrorism was also a key focus area during a meeting of intelligence heads from 20 countries hosted by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval in the national capital this week.

Trick or retreat: There’s a grand deception behind Indian military shortfalls, and in this column

It is fashionable to curse Rajiv Gandhi for Bofors and more, but the truth is that 1985-89 was the only period in our history when weapons acquisitions were proactive and futuristic.