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Sathya Saran

How Hariprasad, son of a ‘pehelwan’, came to choose the flute and not the ‘akhada’

An excerpt from ‘Breath of Gold: Hariprasad Chaurasia’, by Sathya Saran.

Sathya Saran
· Dec 27, 2019 · 07:30 am
Gulzar’s ‘Angoor’: He had ‘a metre in mind, the rhythm of a sentence in his brain’

Edited excerpts from a book on the comedy directed by Gulzar in 1982 and starring Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Varma as two sets of identical twins.

Sathya Saran
· Feb 13, 2019 · 08:15 am
How singer Jagjit Singh came to Mumbai in search of the elusive break

An excerpt from a biography of the singer who became the voice of the ghazal in Hindi film music.

Sathya Saran
· Sep 05, 2015 · 08:30 am

Are online literary magazines the future of literature or a mere indulgence for writers and ignored by readers?

An interview with Indira Chandrasekhar, founder-editor of the online literary magazine outofprint, offers some answers.

Sathya Saran
· Jun 16, 2015 · 08:30 am