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Factoid(s) for the group mind, gathered from noted or anonymous sources.
This post is being published in late July/early August, 2022. This blog-site will be undergoing some rather extensive revisions in the weeks and months ahead. We aim to minimize disruptions during this evolution, and hope that you will continue to visit and support the site and its reason to exist for the duration. Dear Music […]
Namaste, Dear Music Lover, Life is indeed a very precious GIFT, to be celebrated and treasured as an irreplaceable experience given to each of us at birth. Few people are given much warning about when their life will end, so they can only press on with hope and courage (no matter how awful it seems at some points). Often […]
Namaste, Dear Music Lover, Well, it’s been quite an interesting month or so with (I hope) the once-in-a-lifetime ordeal given the 2019-20 novel-coronavirus global pandemic (and resultant COVID–19 disease)! While in the early 2000s, I did seriously consider a career in health sciences, instead my film music odyssey followed some TV appearances in connection with Sony/Fremantle’s Indian Idol show. […]
Namasté, Dear Music Lover, This will be one of my briefest posts here. I just want to acknowledge the importance of gaining control over one’s own mind—being a key aspect of training oneself as a pro vocalist. We are given notes and guidance from composers about how to approach various texts and melodies (the voice […]
Namaste, Dear Music Lover, In this article, I want to explore interactions of artists and society at large. Do art and society ever exist at cross purposes, or is art merely a reflection? This is a rather lengthy essay, and I will update it with illustrations and a few links to relevant background info. in the next […]
There are puzzles and challenges. There are easy puzzles—and occasionally some challenging ones. Some occasions call for easy games or puzzles. Others might suggest handcuffs and muzzles. Maybe you like some crossword puzzles? Maybe not! Do you like to play royalty, tigress, or perhaps an occasional game? Even children can use a little twist of the […]
Acha, it seems that we may not get around to doing that multi-post language series before our blog-site relaunch. It was a project that we started and didn’t have resources to finish. We’ll surely feature it and others in the future here! I apologize for any anxiety about that series. My sincere regrets to the good professor […]
This is video coverage of a great July 2015 concert in Mumbai. Maybe some day I will have a concert like this one!
By the way, this post blew up my web browser repeatedly while this was prepared by my web team; my longest post to date is LOADED with information, lol. As “the Internet changes everything,” the so-called commercial music industry is also undergoing a rapid evolution around the planet. I see and hear a number of […]
This is my First Post in a new Series of Language Posts for you all on AntaraMitra.com. I’m having fun with vocal nuances and differences between Hindi and Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, etc. written as sung or spoken texts. I’m passionate about language. We may study them, but we speak no dead languages in India! Regional and personal dialects, accents and quirks abound here, offering fertile ground […]
Bollywood is no stranger to delicious biryani. In my earlier post a blogger sang the praises of Kolkata style. ⛵️ Now that Mumbai’s Indians cricket club has so recently taken a match from Kolkata, it’s time for me to give Mumbai foodies their due. Here’s another nice Best of blog post, this time from India’s […]