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TopicLata Mangeshkar

Topic: Lata Mangeshkar

When Asha Bhosle’s driver got worried about her health. She was practising an RD Burman song

At Delhi’s India International Centre, cinema studies scholar Shikha Jhingan regaled the room with stories of Asha Bhosle.

SP Balasubrahmanyam was irreplaceable in Bollywood. Asha Bhosle wondered what he ate

After he was already a celebrated playback singer in the South, SP Balasubrahmanyam's Bollywood debut came with Ek Duuje Ke Liye, which earned him the National Film Award.

Here are Suman Kalyanpur’s top five unforgettable Hindi songs

The versatile maestro, who sang in Hindi, Marathi, and several regional languages, leaves behind a remarkable six-decade-long career.

How Asha Bhosle became the chosen voice for cross-dressing Bollywood heroes

In 'The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema', scholar Shikha Jhingan explores the discursive nature of the female playback voice in Bombay film songs.

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

ThePrint Quiz, 28 September, 2025: Lata Mangeshkar

When did she begin her career? Which composer declared he would never work with her? On her birth anniversary, take this quiz by ThePrint to see how much you know about Lata Mangeshkar.

When a Rafi-Lata showdown left Bollywood music composers out of choice

While Naushad unleashed the power of Rafi's vocal chords exhibiting his ability to sing in high notes, Burman used the velvety texture of the singer.

‘Lataji was happy after Ram Temple bhoomi poojan,’ PM Modi opens singer’s memorial in Ayodhya

The memorial has a giant statue of a veena, carved out of a single rock.

Remembering Mehdi Hassan—ghazal ‘shahenshah’ who had legion of fans both sides of the border

Mehdi Hassan blurred the lines between folk, classical, and popular music to weave his brand of music. Ab Ke Hum Bichhde, Ranjish Hi Sahi are testimony to it.

‘Dil ki nazar se’ — Singers from India, Pakistan bring back a Lata-Mukesh classic 

Indian youtuber Paushali Sahu and Farrukh Javed, an amateur singer from Lahore record duet from Anari (1959). It’s a hit on Twitter, where users praise their ‘magical’ performance.

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Pakistan’s paradox under Asim Munir: A broker for the world, a bruised state for citizens

Pakistan is busy monetising on geopolitical disorder even as disorder consumes its own peripheries.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

Gen VN Sharma, who led Army in the turbulent late eighties, dies at 97

Hailing from an illustrious military family, he was son of Maj Gen Amar Nath Sharma. His eldest brother Maj Som Nath Sharma is the first recipient of the posthumous Param Vir Chakra.

Youth’s struggles won’t end with Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. Govt must decentralise education

Our education system is a destroyer of all talent by enforcing learning by rote, pushing students to coaching classes to ‘crack’ competitive exams. And then, papers leak.