Concluding the series on SN Tripathi with his best songs for ‘other’ female playback singers It is time to conclude the series on SN Tripathi after a comprehensive coverage of hi… Read More

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And the SOY ward for the Best Female Singer goes to? In my overview post of the best songs of 1942, I had mentioned that the ratio between male solos and female solos in the songs in which s… Read More

Happy birth anniversary to melody-queen Lata Mangeshkar. The listeners of music in India and abroad wish happy birth anniversary to Lata Mangeshkar, the melody queen on 28th September, 2023… Read More

Continuing the series on SN Tripathi with a tribute to Lata Mangeshkar on her 94th birth anniversary (28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) It is matter of satisfaction that after a rea… Read More

Happy birth anniversary to melody-queen Lata Mangeshkar. The listeners of music in India and abroad wish happy birth anniversary to Lata Mangeshkar, the melody queen on 28th September, 2023… Read More

New Delhi, Sep 8 (Always First) By celebrating her 90th birthday with a live performance in Dubai on September 8, Asha Bhosle will be proving yet again that she not only has a tremendous zes… Read More

A tribute to Mukesh on his 47th Remembrance Day (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976) in the series on SN Tripathi Last month radio, print and visual media was awash with tributes to Mukesh… Read More

The biggest Bollywood blockbusters of 1949. 1949 was a year in Bollywood films where a lot of transitions took place. Till that time majority of shooting of films used to take place in the s… Read More

With over 6000 songs in languages like Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Punjabi, Bengali, Shamshad Begum was a versatile singer with an extraordinary voice. She was one of the first playback… Read More

Today the Songs of Yore completes thirteen years. The last three years have brought great disruption in the world. In the years 2020 and 2021, the pandemic was on a rampage. The year gone by… Read More

OP Nayyar better known as Omkar Prasad Nayyar was known for breaking trends. During the 1940s and 1950s, when other composers stuck to Hindustani ragas and folk songs in Bollywood films, OP… Read More

Guest article by DP Rangan completing his Trilogy of Love (Our octogenarian guest author, DP Rangan, surely has great experience in ‘Love’. This is an evidence that age is not ju… Read More

However, things are not so rosy for the Scheduled Tribe (ST) of Gujjars living in this idyllic place. Lifestyle diseases, including anaemia and thyroid, are prevalent here.Razia (17) recentl… Read More

Suman Kalyanpur had her birthday on 28th January, 2021. The media during the last 60s years had been too kind towards some of the celebrities while remained silent about the others. For exam… Read More

Guest article by DP Rangan (DP Rangan had written on the ecstasy side of love when the stars shine bright, sky is bluer than ever, flowers are in bloom, and the world smiles tenderly. But jo… Read More

Guest article by DP Rangan (We celebrated Holi sometime back. This is the season of romance and love, when the flowers bloom, there is music in the stream of rivulets and rustling of leaves… Read More

Guest article by Piyush M Pandya (originally in Gujarati) and Ashok M Vaishnav (English translation) as a tribute to Anthony Gonsalves (12 June 1927 – 18 January 2012) (Greg Booth star… Read More

Suman Kalyanpur, born as Suman Hammady. Her name is one of India’s most recognizable and respected playback singers. Suman Kalyanpur’s career began in 1954 with the movie Mangu… Read More

Any listener of OP Nayyar’s avant-garde, romantic, and sensuous music will be drawn to his music immediately. In the film industry, his melodic, catchy style of music halted the existi… Read More

Continuing the series of tributes to Vasant Desai, the final tribute on his 47th Remembrance Day (9 June 2012 – 22 December 1975) When I started writing my tribute to Vasant Desai to… Read More

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Guest article by DP Rangan as a tribute to Ghulam Haider on his 69th Remembrance Day (1908 – 9 November 1953) (DP Rangan has been the most prolific guest writer for SOY, but it is more… Read More

Gods have been an important part of our lives and, therefore, our films. We do not set off on a journey without checking whether it was an auspicious moment or not. There is a Rahukaalam wh… Read More

Happy birthday to Asha Bhosle. The viewers of bollywood films and listeners of music all across the country wish happy birthday to Asha Bhosle on 8th September, 2022. She had remained a leg… Read More