Tag Archives: Jan Nisar Akhtar

Salilda went on to improvise and create new forms, and refused to be predictable. The master music-maker was a restless perfectionist. And a rebel. Manek Premchand explores the life and works of the...

When we explore the works of Salil da and attempt to understand why he was unparalleled among his contemporaries, layers of his unique and insightful musical dimensions begin to unfold. Kunal Desai looks...

For a poet who was part of the Progressive Writers’ Movement, Jan Nisar Akhtar’s lyrics for Hindi film songs were delicately shaded with the disparate colours of romance, writes Anuradha Warrier