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The veteran singers attended the annual Hridaynath Mangeshkar awards where the senior Mangeshkar presented the award to Asha in the presence of rest of the family.
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Legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who honoured the musicians with a citation and a shawl, said he was delighted to be the one giving the awards.
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'Whatever we are today, if playback singers are here even today, and that includes me, it is because of Didi.'
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'For many years, we didn't speak. But then family is family. We made up.'
'If I'm proud to be single it's because Lata was so blissfully single.'
The who's who of Indian cinema made sure they were at Manish Malhotra's show to celebrate one hundred years of Indian cinema on the end of the first day of the Lakme Fashion Week.
'There is absolutely no rivalry between us.' 'I've always wished her well.' 'And she has always looked up to me as her elder sister.'
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'Social media and AI are tools; they can amplify, archive, and connect, but they cannot replace emotion, discipline, or the years of riyaaz that go into becoming a musician.'
The Mangeshkar sisters -- Lata and Asha -- have sung about 80 Hindi songs together.
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