Saturday, December 10, 2011

The Making Of The James Bond Theme Music

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Ever since Ian Fleming created James Bond in 1953 and wrote "Casino Royale",  the first novel featuring Bond, the charisma of 0...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

The unexplored side of Pannalal Bhattacharyya - Modern Songs versus Devotional Songs

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Every connoisseur of Bengali music remembers Pannalal Bhattacharyya, as one of the finest exponents of devotional songs dedicated to Goddess...
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Monday, March 7, 2011

Uma Basu - The Unsung Heroine of Bengali Music

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Many of us are not aware of Uma Basu; at least the present young generation in their teens and twenties. I still vividly remember that I fir...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Vande Maataram revisited - Did the song get a fair deal ? - Part I

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Prologue I am touching on a very controversial topic today as is evident from the title of this post. Let me clarify that I am an Indian to...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Suchitra Mitra - Beyond Rabindrasangeet

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With the sad demise of Suchitra Mitra, the noted exponent of Rabindrasangeet, the cyberspace is loaded with obituaries about the legend. A...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Concept of Impact Factor in Music with reference to El Condor Pasa

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It so happened not so long ago that I was standing in a queue to get my immigration clearance done at the international terminal of the Neta...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Rebetika & Indian film music - Part III

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In this post I continue from where I left you in the last post. During the 1950s and 1960s more than a 100 Indian films were imported into G...