Kiran Ahluwalia can’t explain exactly why she was smitten by the sinewy desert blues of Tinariwen, but ever since she encountered the legendary Tuareg rock band from northern Mali, their guitar-driven ...

When Shakeel Badayuni wrote the song Jab pyaar kiya toh darna kya for Mughal-e-Azam, director K Asif made him rewrite it nearly a hundred times until each word shone like a gem. “We hum these songs ...