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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicPop music

Topic: pop music

Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain is still shaping pop culture. Here’s how

Nirvana were everywhere at the start of the 1990s, much like Taylor Swift’s omnipresence today.

Haryanvi songs are moving from vulgarity to veil — ghoonghat is sexualised, male gaze the muse

Songs such as 52 Gaj ka Daman and Chatak Matak are gaining popularity in Haryana. Singers have no option but to give in to the disturbing trend.

Viva – India’s first girl group that sang feminist anthems in the early 2000s

At the dawn of a new century, India had an all-girl band whose members were outspoken, didn't shy away from risque fashion and were unapologetic about their behaviour.

Pop Goes India—my suggestion to Rajiv Gandhi when he wanted to promote rock: Remo Fernandes

In his autobiography, Remo Fernandes talks about how he was one of the faces behind India's revolution in pop music.

‘I’m so angry. It’s insane’: Britney Spears’ emotional outburst in court on dad’s guardianship

2 years after a public breakdown in 2006, Britney Spears was officially placed in the care of her father Jamie Spears, in a conservatorship that she describes as 'oppressive and controlling'.

I’m a Taylor Swift fan and I don’t need male approval to enjoy her music

Taylor Swift joined the ranks of Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon after winning her third Album of the Year Award at the 63rd Grammy Awards.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Rich state, borrowed money: Karnataka’s growth story has a debt problem that is only getting worse

Karnataka contributes billions to national growth and FDI, but its own finances show a revenue deficit, spiralling interest costs, and liabilities crossing Rs 11.2 lakh crore.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.