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TopicSalil Chowdhury

Topic: Salil Chowdhury

Salil Chowdhury was composer, lyricist, poet, writer.

Salil Chowdhury — so much more than a Hindi-Bengali film music composer

Krishan Murari -
Salil Chowdhury passed away on 5 September 1995, after a five-decade-long career in cinema, theatre and political activism. ThePrint looks back at his life.

Just 2 fragrant Salil Chowdhury songs were enough to make 1974’s ‘Rajnigandha’ bloom

Unnati Sharma -
On Salil Chowdhury's 26th death anniversary, ThePrint revisits Basu Chatterjee's slice-of-life film on love and relationships, starring Amol Palekar and Vidya Sinha.

5 songs by which to remember Salil Chowdhury, the man of many instruments

Samira Sood -
Influenced by Western classical music, he played the flute, piano, harmonium and esraj and gave us some of Bollywood's most loved tunes.

On Camera

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Opinion

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

Stela Dey -
The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

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Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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