'I doubt very much if I will ever move on from his music, as I have from so much else through the years,' says Aakar Patel.
One of Debashish Bhattacharya's most remarkable contributions is that he has taken the scope and foundation of the slide guitar, improvised it again and again, thereby designing and creating four entirely new guitars.
Ustad Zakir Hussain's story will be told in a thousand ways by each person who met him, loved him, spent time with him, got to know him and shared some precious time off stage with him, says Maanveer Singh.
'Qala is the only film in my career where I will be taking baby steps.'
The sarod maestro launched his book, Master On Masters.
Pritish Nandy's interview of Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly Of India was a stunner.
What to pick from a crowded market...
On Kishore Kumar's 86th birthday, we revisit a Rediff.com exclusive special by Pritish Nandy on the late legend.
'I kept thinking the bedroom door would open any minute and Didi Atya would step out...'
'Sometimes the cast wouldn't come together; sometimes I wasn't in a position at the box office to make this film. But I didn't give up,' Sanjay Leela Bhansali tells Avantika Bhuyan after Bajirao Mastani won 7 National Awards.
Celebrating the poet-saint's legacy in our times.
'No other leader in our history, or that of our neighbours, has been able to produce anything of the quality that Nehru did,' says Aakar Patel.
Aseem Chhabra picks the finest Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade.
Anushka Panda, who has spinal muscular atrophy tells us how she scored 97.8 per cent and topped CBSE class 10 examination.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
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