Revisiting the magic of Shamshad Begum's Bollywood hits

Shaheen Begum receives skills training at the PPC paraplegic centre in Hayatabad in northern Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS Gul Shada thought it was the end of the road for her when she and her husband met with a road accident last year in ...

Catch Parveen Sultana perform live on June 15 at Chowdiah Memorial Hall. She is an Assamese Hindustani classical singer of the Patiala Gharana. She is among the foremost classical vocalists in India and is often called the Queen of classical vocal.

Afreen (name changed) is a five-year-old bubbly girl from Sultan Shahi who likes to paint and jumps at the mention of chocolates. She's just like any other five-year-old but only, she is a survivor - of a brutal sexual assault. While the entire ...

Be it Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon or her superhit Leke Pahla Pahla Pyar, Shamshad's songs continued being favourites with music aficionados, even when she was past her prime. She was born on 14 April, 1919 in Amritsar, and made her singing debut on ...

Shamshad Begum Shamshad Begum was arguably the only surviving star singer from the pre-Lata Mangeshkar era. Her presence reminded us of a past that will now recede into romantic memory. (She) excelled in pre-passion, frothy love songs. Her voice ...

(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 ...

Of Turkish and Indian descent, author Kenizé Mourad recounts the history of the courageous Begum Hazrat Mahal in her highly acclaimed novel Dans la Ville dor et Dargent, published in French and translated into eight languages. Deepshikha Punj finds ...

(BSS)- Awami League Presidium member and Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury today said the war crimes trial is not a secret affair and the government is going ahead with the trial in fulfilment of its election manifesto. She said this while ...

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday granted ad interim anticipatory bail of six weeks to Mahmuda Begum, acting chairman of Amar Desh Publications Ltd, in a case filed for printing the vernacular daily from the press of another daily, reports UNB. An HC ...