{"id":848,"name":"Manek Premchand","url":"","description":"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: <em>Yesterday\u2019s Melodies, Today\u2019s Memories<\/em>, <em>Musical Moments From Hindi Films<\/em>, <em>Romancing The Song<\/em>, <em>Shiv Kumar Sharma, The Man and His Music<\/em> (co-authored with two others), <em>Talat Mahmood\u2014The Velvet Voice<\/em>, <em>Hitting The Right Notes<\/em>, <em>The Hindi Music Jukebox<\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3gPPHKR\" rel=\"noopener\">The Unforgettable Music of Hemant Kumar<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3dmpUKm\" rel=\"noopener\">Majrooh Sultanpuri: The Poet For All Reasons<\/a><\/em>, <em>Windows to the Soul<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48RvlMk\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>DIRECTOR\u2019S CHAIR \u2014 Hindi Cinema\u2019s Golden Age<\/em><\/a>, <em>And the Music Lives On<\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3M8w4Co\">Soulfully Yours, Ravi<\/a><\/em>.\r\n\r\nBesides these, he has written hundreds of music-related articles for a variety of newspapers.\r\n\r\nHe 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\u2019s College, Mumbai. He is currently an adviser to Manipal University Press.","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/manekpremchand\/","slug":"manekpremchand","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a85d8d9af8bca347117702e932fb40eb631f9ed569b7237cb219282c0f178ed2?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a85d8d9af8bca347117702e932fb40eb631f9ed569b7237cb219282c0f178ed2?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a85d8d9af8bca347117702e932fb40eb631f9ed569b7237cb219282c0f178ed2?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}