Playback singing in Hindi cinema can be divided into two neat halves: before and after Lata Mangeshkar . Before Lataji, the vinyl records carried the name...
Dear Rolling Stones, Firstly, thank you for honouring our most precious and irreplaceable Goddess Of All Melodious Things among the 200 best singers of all times....
There are three Bollywood ladies of legendary repute who preferred to wear only one colour.Lata Mangeshkar, Nargis and Simi Garewal were known to wear only white....
What do awards mean to you at this stage of your life and career when you’ve seen every recognition possible? I am happy with what I...
India’s greatest national treasure Lata Mangeshkar has passed on into the ages. But she left a dream behind. And it is a matter of great pride...
My Father Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar: “My father was a huge influence in shaping me into the singer that I became. He taught me music. Do you know for a very...
Lalit Pandit, one-half the popular Jatin-Lalit duo, tells Subhash K Jha what it means to be Lata Mangeshkar and to have worked with her. “There never ...
Javed Akhtar told me about an incident that Pandit Jasraj narrated to him .In the 1950s Pandit Jasraj was in Amritsar when he went to meet the classical...
Everyone knows Lataji and her super-illustrious sister have come together for monumental numbers like Mann kyon behka(Utsav) and Jab jab tumhe bulaya(Jahan Aara).But it’s not well-known that the two legendary sisters have ...
Like so many myths and misrepresentations regarding the Goddess Of All Melodious Things, which were floating around while she was still here with us, the misinformation ...
She was very shy of meeting people. But everyone wanted to just see her. There would be a congregation of darshaks at any given time. I...
I had decided to not write an obituary on the Goddess Of All Melodious Things. Obituaries are written for the dead. The Goddess cannot die. She...
As she recuperates slowly but surely from the attack by the greatest villain civilization has encountered since Gabbar Singh I recall my first encounter with Lata...
Javed Akhtar is among the millions who believe Lataji’s voice to the therapeutic. “When your morale is down or when your not feeling well, her songs...
Vishal Bhardwaj’s composition Theek nahin lagta which was recorded for a film in the 1990s that never got released, until January this year, triggered off a chain of memories ...
As the Goddess of all melodious things Lata Mangeshkar completed 80 years of singing on December 16, her most ardent bhakt Subhash K Jha caught up with her....