Video: These teenage girls are combating perceptions of Muslim women being submissive and voiceless

With headscarves and heavy metal, Indonesia’s girl band Voice of Baceprot is thrashing stereotypes.

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· Yesterday · 07:00 pm

Watch: A genius composer, yes, but RD Burman was a great singer too

A look at the songs only RD Burman could do justice to.

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· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

Now that Saregama Carvaan is here, move over, FM radio?

Despite its flaws and limitations, the digital audio player is a case where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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· Jun 26, 2017 · 04:45 pm

Picture the song: May all end credits roll like ‘Ajj Mera Jee Karda’

It isn’t over until Sukhwinder Singh sings in Mira Nair’s ‘Monsoon Wedding’.

Nandini Ramnath

· Jun 26, 2017 · 01:30 pm

Watch: The latest ‘Shape Of You’ cover is an English-Tamil mashup by a (very) young singer

It’s ‘Shape Of You’ versus ‘Aathangara Orathil’ with young talent Praniti in a face-off with herself.

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· Jun 26, 2017 · 01:00 pm

Sound of Lollywood: When ghazal king Ghulam Ali gave over his glorious voice to a love song

‘Wadah Karo Tum’ from ‘Bigri Naslein’ is a rare pop ditty from the ghazal maestro.

Nate Rabe

· Jun 24, 2017 · 01:30 pm

Watch: Kalki Koechlin’s slam poetry ‘Noise’ is an ode to silence

We, who ‘make news out of nationalism, feminism, rationalism, patriotism, and “let’s be offended by everything isms” are responsible for this noise’.

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· Jun 23, 2017 · 05:00 pm

Mumbai weekend cultural calendar: Comedy Mashup, Arun Kashalkar at St Xavier’s, and more

There's a lot happening in the nation's commercial capital over the next three days.

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· Jun 23, 2017 · 04:29 pm

Delhi weekend cultural calendar: Armaan Malik at Flyp, big tap fest, poetry workshops and more

There is a lot happening in the nation's capital over the next three days.

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· Jun 23, 2017 · 10:15 am

Watch: Percussionist Bickram Ghosh’s fantastic tribute to Kolkata uses only sounds from its streets

Who’d have thought there was music in this noise?

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· Jun 21, 2017 · 01:00 pm

Watch: You have to see the extraordinary process of making a flute from scratch

Making a flute by hand can take years.

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· Jun 19, 2017 · 10:00 pm

Watch: Meet Sonia Shirsat from Goa, India’s best singer of the Portuguese Fado

For her, it is not just a genre, ‘it sort-of plays the strings of my heart.’

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· Jun 15, 2017 · 08:00 pm