At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, cowboy songs, and a banjo revived a fading musical tradition.
Other global media reports discuss Zelenskyy signalling he is open to New Delhi leading peace talks, a folk music festival in shadow of Rajasthan's Mehrangarh Fort & instant delivery.
A majority of social media users and two national newspapers have given ‘Coke Studio 15’ a thumbs down. The verdict is clear—only a few are loving it there.
The song ‘Ma Lo Ma’ from Season 3 of Coke Studio Bangla has racked up 36 million YouTube views and a flurry of dance covers & reaction videos, from Norway to US and South Africa.
In ‘Punjabi Centuries: Tracing Histories of Punjab’, edited by Anshu Malhotra, Nicole Ranganath recounts how diasporic Punjabi women used folk songs to express their loneliness in California.
Growing up in a conservative community, her neighbours were scandalised. Kaur had to shut the doors, windows and even the ventilators whenever she trained.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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