Independent India has gone without independent music or rather, more correctly, successful independent music for 60 years. Popular music has, for close to its entire lifetime, been subservient to the film industry, expressing only what befit ...
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As a teenager chasing pop music in 1980, it was always a tough task to get our hands on new music back then. Me? I knew someone who knew someone...more
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan of Kasur fled to India and became a citizen in 1958 because Pakistanis had little interest in music. Nehru encouraged him to move and Morarjibhai Desai...more
The music reveals the man. These are my favourite records. They're not the ones that I can remember, or the ones that take me back. They're more important than that....more
Indian classical music has no harmony, they say, leaving it one dimension short of being truly fulfilling music. The other two dimensions being melody and rhythm, both of which presumably...more
Independent India has gone without independent music or rather, more correctly, successful independent music for 60 years. Popular music has, for close to its entire lifetime, been subservient to the film industry, expressing only what befit ...
