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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: Jazz

How US charmed Bombay with jazz—and left Indians feeling Americans were their blood brothers

Did the agenda work in India? Fifty years later, fans still remember the warmth and excitement of jazz, as the audience at an IIC talk proved.

Revisit Project’s desi jazz brings audience but no money. That’s India’s indie music scene

The popularity of The Revisit Project’s instrumental music in a vocals-obsessed industry is an interesting addition to the independent music scene in India.

’In films, I have mostly sung for the bad girls’ —Why Usha Uthup is more than Bollywood songs

In an authorised biography, Vikas Kumar Jha writes about Usha Uthup’s journey from jazz bands in Chennai’s glitzy nightclubs to a pan-India musical sensation.

On Camera

No other city is like Gurugram—’so mismanaged, yet so highly spoken of’

Gurugram has a problem of structural abandonment, whether you’re a domestic worker speaking an alien language, or the much-celebrated CEO of the new hot startup.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.