Shamshad Begum had sung 'Katiya Karoon' 50 years ago!

There is no fixed formula to becoming successful, says playback singer Harshdeep Kaur, known for her Sufi songs like "Katiya karoon"."There is no fixed rule or mantra to become a successful singer. One has to sing well, but there are other things that matter.

Protesters in Brazil. (Wikimedia Commons/Agencia Brasil) I traveled to Brazil last September to investigate the preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. It was painfully evident that the social disruption of hosting two mega-events in ...

A member of the Bihar Jharkhand North Chhattisgarh Special Area Committee of the CPI (Maoists), arrested in a joint operation by the Jharkhand and Bihar police on May 29 from a hotel in Muzaffarpur in Bihar, has confessed to his role in stitching a ...

Sipping ginger tea with his wife Savita on the cold morning of January 10, Inspector Sanjay Kumar Rana, 47, thought of the tepid Thursday ahead. He stretched on the lounge chair, watching his son Rishabh, 14, helping six-year-old sister Megha ...

Three Maoists were killed in an encounter with Jharkhand Jaguar Special Task Force (STF) and the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Peerhi forest near Garu in Latehar district on Monday ...

Gumla: Two Maoist commanders from Chhattisgarh and Bihar have arrived at Gumla forests with their cadres to strengthen security cover of top Red leader Arvindji, police sources said. The sources said Nishantji from Chhattisgarh and Pawanji from ...

(Hindi translations by , with help from Havovi Cooper and Uzra Khan. Punjabi translation by Vineet Sharma.) How do you pay tribute to a singer who faded from public memory, only to revisit the headlines when she died? I was wondering this today ...

Despite her conservative background and being ordered to record songs in a burkha, Shamshad Begum lived on her own terms, producing soulful music that took us back in time. Fiercely independent till the end, her rich legacy is a bouquet of fragrant ...

Tags: Raja Harishchandra, Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, IFFM 2013 0 Melbourne: The second Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2013 is all set to begin next Friday showcasing over 60 films from India and the subcontinent, including 1913 ...