About Manek Premchand
Manek Premchand has a diploma in Journalism and a degree in Arts from Bombay University. He has many friends in the film industry and remains fascinated by the enormous role that Hindi cinema's music has played as a key bonding medium in a country as disparate as ours. This fascination has motivated him to write several books on the subject. These are:
Yesterday’s Melodies, Today’s Memories,
Musical Moments From Hindi Films,
Romancing The Song,
Shiv Kumar Sharma, The Man and His Music (co-authored with two others),
Talat Mahmood—The Velvet Voice,
Hitting The Right Notes,
The Hindi Music Jukebox,
The Unforgettable Music of Hemant Kumar,
Majrooh Sultanpuri: The Poet For All Reasons,
DIRECTOR’S CHAIR — Hindi Cinema’s Golden Age and
And the Music Lives On.
Besides these, he has written hundreds of music-related articles for a variety of newspapers.
He has also been a consultant with Saregama India Ltd. and a show host on many radio platforms including WorldSpace Satellite Radio. He also teaches elements of Broadcasting to post-graduate students at Xavier Institute of Communications, a part of Xavier’s College, Mumbai. He is currently an adviser to Manipal University Press.