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Singer and Housewife: Suman Kalyanpur

Singer and Housewife: Suman Kalyanpur By MOHAN NADKARNI writing as GURUDEV SHARAN The Sunday Standard, November 14, 1971 IN a world of cut throat competition like that of the cinema, where the celebrities of yesterday are spurned as mediocrities today and forgotten as non-entitles tomorrow. Suman Kalyanpur has remained among the three top-notchers in Hindi play-back singing. Comparisons are odious, even invidious. But the...

Music is his faith – not merely a career

Music is his faith – not merely a career By MOHAN NADKARNI writing as GURUDEV SHARAN The Sunday Standard, February 25, 1973 A MAESTRO who wanted to be a recluse but became a musicians – and having become one, related his art to the spirit and abhors concert appearances; these are some of the unusual traits of Pandit Arolkar’s personality. But whenever this great...