In the last two years National Register for Citizens (NRC) has been in the news, and the controversy associated with it. Now what is NRC- in a simple sense it is a register where records of Indian citizens is supposed to being recorded state wise. The north eastern states, which were facing infiltration from neighbouring…
Film Music & Royalty
Quite some time back, I had written a blog about the royalty payments to singers, music composers and lyricists of the songs. The royalty which is received by film producers had to be shared by them with the singer, composer and lyricist of the songs as per Copyright Act and Copyright Rules. In fact IPRS…
Maharashtra Govt
It has been almost a week since Maharashtra was put under President’s Rule. During last week on 12th Nov, I wrote about formation of govt in Maharashtra with how the political parties with diverse ideologies are uniting to form a govt. Today also, I am writing on the same topic as now it is almost…
Weekend
Continuing with my weekend blog on lyricists of Hindi films, in this series I am left with now only two lyricists, and they are considered among top five lyricists of Bollywood. Today I am writing about the lyricist who although started his lyrical career in early 60s during the golden period of Hindi film music…
Hindus & Guardianship
Today morning, in the newspaper I read an article which really baffled me. The article said that as per act and law the father is the natural guardian of the sons and daughter till they attain majority. This is as per the provision (Section 6) of Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (HMGA) of 1956. I…
Ayodhya in Future
In anticipation of verdict from Supreme Court (SC) will be in favour of Birth place of Lord Ram, the BJP govt at Centre was ready with the blue print of how to develop Ayodhya and make it as one of best religious centre of the world. As per verdict, the govt at centre is making…
Tuesday Brief
Few interesting news items/stories of last 2/3 days across the country, which I would like to share with you and my opinion on the same. 1 On Sunday (10th Nov), in T20I between India & Bangladesh, India Deepak Chahar become the first Indian bowler to take hat trick in T20I game. India batting first scored…
Ayodhya Judgement
During last weekend the main development which happened in the country was the delivery of Supreme (SC) verdict on Ram Janam Bhoomi, Ayodhya case. Full nation was waiting with bated breath about this verdict by SC, and when the verdict was delivered by 5 Judge Bench of SC headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan…
Weekend
This weekend I am continuing with my last weekend blog, which was on the songs of lyricist Anand Bakshi. In the last article on Anand Bakshi, I had listed 35 songs penned by him which were my favourite, so in this blog the rest of the songs are listed. Please note that the songs are…
Save The Khaki ?
For last few days there was issue between Delhi Police and Lawyers, and yesterday it took an unprecedented turn when thousands of policemen gathered outside office of Delhi Police Commissioner and protested. This scene indirectly reminded me a scene from Bollywood movie called Singham 2, where it was also shown the policemen came to roads…