Old hits have long featured in Tamil films, usually to evoke a certain era. But in the last four or five years, these blasts from the past often arrive without rhyme or reason.
‘Kabhi Tanhaiyon Mein’ singer Mubarak Begum, who died on 18 July 2016, worked with some of the biggest names in Bollywood in the 1950s & 60s. But her career took a nosedive.
In a conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir that led to a book, Lata Mangeshkar had talked about fighting for credit for Bollywood’s playback singers and songwriters.
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.
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.
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