At the Maati ki Boli event, Shailesh Srivastava presented the lyrical soul of Maharashtra’s folk traditions and highlighted the versatility of folk music.
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.
Apoorva Mukhija got rape threats and FIRs for retorting to a comment about her body on India’s Got Latent. Pranit More got a rap on the knuckles for Rs 370 biryani clip. It’s hypocrisy 101.
Long-drawn dispute involves complaints that Linde India had allegedly unfairly hived off a potentially lucrative business to unlisted subsidiary without approval of all shareholders.
Defence minister helmed a review meeting of HAL projects which was attended by CDS Gen N S Raja Subramani, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal A P Singh, CMD of HAL Ravi Kota and others.
The central curse of our urban governance isn’t that more voters live in these slummified villages. It’s that the political class panders to them instead of improving their quality of life.
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