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Indian documentaries, up on our watch listQuality documentaries, from Gautam Ghose's 1989 documentary on the life of shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan Sang-e-Meel Se Mulaqat (Meeting a...
Bismillah Khan death Anniversary: Did you know Shehnai maestro also acted in a film?Bismillah Khan, most popularly known as Ustad Bismillah Khan, was one of the most acclaimed musicians India has ever produced. The Bharat R...
Meena Kumari, FIFA WC, Winter Solstice: A throwback to the best Google doodles of 2018Google welcomed 2018 with an adorable Penguin doodle.
President Pranab Mukherjee confers Padma Awards to 44 personsThe focus of this year's Padma awards, according to the officials in the Home Ministry, was on recognising talent of unknown and unsung her...
Narendra Modi government adds Ustad Bismillah Khan, Biju Patnaik to non-Nehru-Gandhi pantheonIt enhances the political process to de-emphasise Congress's first family by celebrating personalities from culture, politics and history w...
Amjad Ali Khan awarded the 'Swati Puraskar' by Kerala governmentSarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has been conferred with Kerala Goverment's prestigious music award, for his outstanding contribution to ...
Feel scared over political atmosphere: Bismillah Khan's son"We don't want to get involved in politics, for us all are the same. Sometimes I feel scared, though, the way political atmosphere is build...
Lok Sabha elections 2014: Congress goes all out to woo Muslim votersA group of Congress leaders from the Centre and UP were asked to reach out to influential leaders and families of the Muslim community in V...
Varanasi: Bismillah Khan's kin at Rahul Gandhi's roadshow, say nothing politicalA number of Khan's relatives welcomed Gandhi by playing shehnai at Beniabagh area of Varanasi, seen as some kind of support to Congress.
Rahul Gandhi hits back at Narendra Modi with last-day rally in VaranasiRahul's payback roadshow came as campaign frenzy gripped Varanasi, which will go to polls on May 12, reaches the last lap of the nine-phase...
Muslim electorate in Varanasi vexed at false promises by politiciansThe resting place of Ustad Bismillah Khan has been converted into an instrument of symbolic reaching out to Varanasi’s Muslim population.
Ustad Bismillah Khan's family refuses to be Narendra Modi's proposerAffaq Haider said he and his father never refuse any invitation for a cultural programme for any political party including BJP but won't le...
Varanasi seat winner should build Bismillah's mausoleum: FamilyBismillah's family, however, rued that political parties remember the Bharat Ratna recipient only during elections but forget all the promi...
Suddenly, political parties discover Ustad Bismillah KhanA group of BJP workers and Narendra Modi supporters went to Khan's grave at Fatman to pay tributes on his 101st birth anniversary.
Family still waiting for Bismillah Khan's mausoleumThe promise to make a mausoleum and monument in the Shehnai player Bharat Ratna Bismillah Khan's memory remains unfulfilled.
Playing victim for psychological advantageFinally, King Khan, whose success both as an actor and a brand has been as meteoric as meteoric can get, said he is perfectly safe in the c...
- Lok Sabha okays amendments to copyright law
A bill seeking to uphold the rights of lyricists, artistes and performers to claim royalty for their creations got Parliament's nod on Tues...
- No gems in literature
Nobody seems to be disturbed by the fact that so far no Indian writer has been considered worthy of Bharat Ratna, country's highest civilia...
- Bismillah Khan dead
Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan died of cardiac arrest in the wee hours on Monday.