Daily Happenings

Some interesting developments which happened during  this weekend, which I would like to share with you. 1 Rainfall- During this monsoon season Mumbai has seen unprecedented rains, and city came to standstill on quite few occasion. During this monsoon season the rainfall in Mumbai created an all time record of rainfall (during June-September period which…

Continuing with my Weekend blog on the topic of Bollywood Lyricists and this week I am writing about one of the greatest lyricist of Golden Era of  Hindi film music. He is the person who along with Music Composer Naushad gave different dimensions to the filmy songs, and they were the 2nd duo of Music…

Some interesting thoughts on this Thursday of Sept 2019.   1 Supreme Court (SC) asking Central Govt to restore normalcy in Jammu & Kashmir. Now normalcy is a very vague and relative term, but in this case SC added a rider which was restore normalcy keeping national security in mind. Now this directive by SC…

  In today’s blog I am writing about Mumbai’s burning topic, before I elaborate on this subject, would like to give a little back ground. There is an underground metro system being constructed in Mumbai, known as Mumbai Metro 3, which is going to cover the distance of approx 33 Kms from Colaba in South…

In today’s blog, I am writing about an interesting development which happened during last few days, and this is about the recession happening in the automobile industry. You must have read the news that the automobile sales are down by almost 30% as compared to last year and Maruti Suzuki’s plant at Gurgaon has stopped productions…

This weekend also , I am continuing with the series on Lyricist of Hindi film songs. Last week I wrote about Shailendra and this week I am writing about Hasrat Jaipuri, who along with Shailendra and Composer duo Shankar Jaikishan formed a deadly combination and gave the best compositions in Hindi film music. It has…

There  have been few developments nationally in the last few days, which I thought of sharing on this blog. 1 Latest on P Chidambaram Case- As you are all aware that Chidambaram has been lodged in Tihar jail, Delhi for 15 days as per the trial court verdict of 5th Sept 2019. He and his lawyer…

Friends, on this 2nd  Tuesday of  Sept 2019, there are few news items which I would like to brief you with my observations. 1 You all are aware about the Chandrayaan 2 story and I am not going to repeat the same. When on late last Friday night ISRO Chairman announced that there have been…

  Last weekend I wrote about the Bollywood  lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi, continuing with the lyricist series, this time I am writing about the top songs written by another lyricist. Although this person’s career as Lyricist was not very long because at the prime of his age, he died due to cardiac problem. He gave the…

In the last few days, when I could not write blogs, not much happened politically of great importance except for the merger of Public sector banks and Congress’s political vendetta comments when Karnataka Ex minister D Sivakumar was arrested by ED in money laundering case after questioning him for three days. Now for the other…