Welcome 2025: What Thiruvananthapuram wants

Welcome 2025: What Thiruvananthapuram wants

The New Year has dawned. As Thiruvananthapuram continues to grow by leaps and bounds, a few residents of the city talk about their hopes for the city’s future, touching upon subjects such as infrastructure improvement, environment conservation and cultural development. Balanced cityscape Syed Shiyaz Mirza | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT With the Smart City project […]

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Welcome 2025: What Thiruvananthapuram wants

Welcome 2025: What Thiruvananthapuram wants

The New Year has dawned. As Thiruvananthapuram continues to grow by leaps and bounds, a few residents of the city talk about their hopes for the city’s future, touching upon subjects such as infrastructure improvement, environment conservation and cultural development. Balanced cityscape Syed Shiyaz Mirza | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT With the Smart City project […]

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Colonial Cousins re-unite: Hariharan and Leslee Lewis on music, brotherhood and everything in between

Colonial Cousins re-unite: Hariharan and Leslee Lewis on music, brotherhood and everything in between

As far as stories of friendships go, it’s hard to beat this one. In 1992, a talented singer named Hariharan (who had burst into the mainstream spotlight with Thamizha Thamizha for A. R Rahman’s debut album in Mani Ratnam’s Roja) met another equally-gifted composer-producer Leslee Lewis to record a jingle for the latter. A couple […]

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Shruti Haasan opens up on her Telugu films ‘Waltair Veerayya’, ‘Veera Simha Reddy’, English film ‘The Eye’ and independent music

Shruti Haasan opens up on her Telugu films ‘Waltair Veerayya’, ‘Veera Simha Reddy’, English film ‘The Eye’ and independent music

“There was a point in 2021, which was one of the busiest years in my career, when I took stock of the films I was doing and thought to myself ‘my life doesn’t make sense at all’,” chuckles actor-singer Shruti Haasan. She had been filming back-to-back for the Telugu entertainers Waltair Veerayya co-starring Chiranjeevi and […]

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Yamini Ghantasala ventures into Telugu independent music with ‘Needhe Aakasam’, surprises her brother S Thaman

Yamini Ghantasala ventures into Telugu independent music with ‘Needhe Aakasam’, surprises her brother S Thaman

Yamini Ghantasala in the Telugu independent song ‘Needhe Aakasam’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement ‘Needhe Aakasam’ (The sky is yours), the first Telugu independent song composed and sung by Yamini Ghantasala, is the playback singer’s ode to the vast sky that she says, has a calming effect on her. “Half my phone gallery is filled […]

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