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Lata Mangeshkar :  Nightingale of musical world On 28 th September 2019, Lata Mangeshkar, a Great Singer who has been honored with Bharat Ratna in 2001 by Indian Government is celebrating her 90 th birthday. It is the happiest moments for music lover. She is really Nightingale of musical world. There is nobody to match the power & influence she has exercised, and continues to, exercise. Born on 28.09.1929 in Princess State Indore under British India, her birth name was Hema which was changed by her parents and renamed as Lata after female character in one of her father’s play "Bhaav Bandhan” and whole world started knowing her as Lata Mangeshkar. She took her first music lesson from her father & for Hindustani classical music from Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, Amanat Khan Devaswale & Pandit Tulsi das Sharma. In 1942, She started her career by recording her song for Marathi film Kiti Hasal and song was " Naacha Ya Gade, Khelu  Sam mani Hous Baan" whose mus...

Mohammed Rafi: Golden voice of the silver screen – Book tribute to great Singer Many Scholars and critics go beyond the camera and penned on Bollywood stars to provide the best and worst details of their life. Recently many biographies and autobiographies have been published to tell Untold stories of Bollywood stars in analytical way.   Even after this, stories of many big personalities have yet to be told and popular playback singer Mohammed Rafi was one of them.   Sujata Dev, an entrepreneur with a background in Mathematics, Statistics and economics, has penned the life of legendary singer Mohammed Rafi and name of the book is Mohammed Rafi: Golden voice of the silver screen. This book is the story of musical journey of Mohammed Rafi with his music composer, with his co singers and with film actors to whom he had lent his voice as playback singer From Yogesh Gogwekar Sujata Dev has worked more than two decades in the Media and entertainment Industry. She also ser...

A memorable incidence at the time of shooting a song   " Taareef Karoon Kya Uski " from film Kashmir Ki Kali made in 1964. Shammi Kapoor was always being called as a game changer in Golden Era of Bollywood. He developed his own style, Films like Tumsa Nahi Dekha made in 1957 & Dil Dekhe Dekho made in 1959 have given him break through and   helped him to establish a gregarious personality. He   has done this with the   help of Play back singer Mohammed Rafi. From Yogesh Gogwekar. Mohammed Rafi sang nearly 200 songs for Shammi Kapoor. I do not think whether he sang so many songs to any other actors. Rafi has developed a great Chemistry with Shammi Kapoor by adapting his voice with the reflection of his unique style of acting. Shammi Kapoor justified the same by emoting, dancing and wooing with his leading ladies in perfect manner. It has been observed many times that Shammi Kapoor himself used to play an active role in creating, co...

*This has taken from Autobiography of Sourav Ganguly, A Century is not Enough* " Next time you to go out inform security & we will have an entourage with you. Please do not indulge in adventures. Facing Wasim Akram's deadly in-cutter was less scary". These are the words of former President of Pakistan General Musharraf & he told this to Indian Cricket team Captain  Sourav Ganguly who was leading India in 2004 series for Pakistan Tour. This is because Sourav Ganguly had violated security codes by breaking the rules.  From Yogesh Gogwekar  In 2004 , Indian Cricket team had done tour of Pakistan. There was tightest security had been laid down. After wining the one day & Test series, Indian Captain was in the mood of celebration. This incidence happened in Lahore. On one day, Indian Captain escaped from fortress midnight for a bit of adventure with his friends from Kolkata. Well past midnight, he & his friends from Kolkata visited to ...

Marathi book Vata Mazya Tuzya written by Narhar Kurundkar. Reading the book in Marathi & to write views in English is little  difficult task but still I have tried this again. I tried this after  reading the book Vata Mazya Tuzya written by Narhar Kurundkar. A fantastic book to read. From Yogesh Gogwekar Narhar Kurundkar was multifaceted personality who had written the books with logical analysis on various topics like Marathi literature, Socialism, Hindu & Muslim communalism , Nationalist Leaders Political philosophy, education etc.  His contribution towards education in Maharashtra was tremendous.  He was committed activist of Rastra Seva Dal. Dr. R.S. Ambike  who was also an activist of RSD asked Kurundkar to write book on the main issues which India facing after independence and sent off a long list of questions on such wide range of issues. Narhar Kurundkar answered all these questions in cheerful manner & this resulte...

Dnyanmurty Govind Talwalkar Biography of Govind Talwalkar Everyone has 24 hours per day but some exceptional make those 24 hours into 48 hours of work per day and lived nearly 150 years of working life. Govind Sripad Talwalkar was one of them. He was liberal & living legend & icon of Maharastrians. Impact of his writing always compared to Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Remembering all these because of two books which have recently been read by me. One was Dnyanmurty Govind Talwalkar a biography written by his daughters and Vaicharik Vyaspith written by him. From Yogesh Gogwekar   Dnyanmurty Govind Talwalkar is  a biography of Talwalkar written in Marathi by his daughters Dr. NIRUPAMA & SUSHMA  TAWLAKAR. Writers have covered all aspects of his life from Childhood , his life in Dombivili, his life as journalist in Mumbai and writer , his passion for Garden, books and also his relationships with intellectuals not only in Maharashtra or in India but also at inter...

Review of Book Ranade , Gandhi and Jinnah written by Dr Ambedkar I am always enjoying writings of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar on various subjects like Religion, Cast system, on Creation of Pakistan, making states on linguistic basis , political issues of pre  & post independent period and above all on Economics. All his writings are well researched & useful to many generations. Recently, I got an opportunity to read a book which is nothing but the speech delivered by him in Deccan Sabha in Pune in 1943 on 101th birth anniversary of Late Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade and book name is Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah. From Yogesh Gogwekar In this book, Ambedkar has shown us greatness of Justice Ranade by explaining the exact meaning of greatness. He questioned, " who can be called a great Man?." He said that men from army become great without waiting to be called great. He further said that even though details of their career & their moral are interesting,...