Songs of Youth

Posted on Trivia- The Spice of Life on 14/08/2022 यौवन सचमुच आंधी ही है, उसकी अपनी गति होती है और लक्ष्यनिष्ठ जीवन ही, जीने हेतु सुमति होती है कोई बाधा रोक न पाती व व्यवधान नही टिकते है यौवन के साहस, संकल्पों को तो उच्च लक्ष्य दीखते है खड़ी समस्याएं जब होती, यौवन ललकारा जाता

Songs of the ‘Earthen Lamp’

Diwali is round the corner. Yet another festival that the Corona virus shall devour. The festivities will have to be low key this time round with all norms of social distancing in place. For me, the best part of Diwali has always been lighting earthen lamps (दीया in Hindi) with ghee or oil and cotton

Duets of Subir Sen

The other day I was reading a post on the duets of Lata Mangeshkar and Hemant Kumar on Mehfil Mein Meri. It was then that I wondered that Subir Sen (1934-2015), who hailed from Bengal and whose voice was very similar to Hemant Kumar’s (1920-1989) also sang quite a few memorable songs in Hindi films,