We caught up with the generously smiling, Nigel Rajaratnam, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist as he talks about his solo project, SkyDrops and more… It seems like Nigel Rajaratnam likes to do many things. While packing up his instruments after his NH7 gig in Bangalore, he reveals that he plays a few instruments — flute, melodica, [...]
Los Angeles: Singer Nick Cannon says he dated socialite Kim Kardashian in 2010 but broke off after she lied to him about her sex tape. Kim’s sex tape had been made in 2003 with her then boyfriend Ray J but she tried to hide it from Nick. ”We talked about this tape, and she told me there [...]
Photo credit: Shalaka Pai On a cold winter night in Bangalore, the acoustic folk rock group, The Staves — Camilla, Emily and Jessica, the Staveley-Taylor sisters performed a sober yet compelling set that had their fans listening in attentive silence. This, only broken with cheering and comments on how beautiful they were, “we love you”, the [...]
India’s ‘happiest’ music festival, Bacardi NH7 Weekender, saw performances from 60 bands. We take you through the musical moments of the two days in pictures.
Fusion-rock band Lagori’s guitarist Geeth Vaz, an interesting combination of an investment banker and guitarist, turns pensive-poet, telling us about few of the band’s essential tunes… Saiyyan Love, The biggest word in our dictionary. Saiyyan is a song that took us three minutes to compose. And we think it is because Love is an emotion [...]
London: Pop sensation Justin Bieber has revealed he will release an acoustic album next month, which will include unplugged versions of some of his hits. The 18-year-old can’t wait for his fans to hear unplugged versions of some of his hits, including “Boyfriend” and “As Long As You Love Me” which will be included on [...]
iTUNES Top 10 songs 1 stupid boy Cassadee Pope 2 let it be Terry McDermott 3 locked out of heaven Bruno Mars 4 i knew you were trouble Taylor Swift 5 ho hey The Lumineers 6 you are so beautiful Nicholas David 7 die young Ke$ha 8.diamonds Rihanna 9 Gangnam style Psy 10 beauty and [...]
Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, one of India’s best known musicians, died in San Diego Tuesday. He was 92.
Sixteen years after Slash, the top-hat-wearing former lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses performed with Indus Creed in Bangalore, Axl Rose the frontman of the original band will be in India. Guns N’ Roses, one of the world’s most popular hard rock outfits, famous for songs like Paradise City and November Rain, will make their [...]
With Guns N’ Roses, fronted by Axl Rose, set to rock Bangalore on December 7, we look at the line-up of a band missing its key members including the superstar guitaritst, Slash. The ‘new’ boys Dizzy Reed Aside from frontman Axl Rose, Reed is the longest-standing and only member of Guns N’ Roses to remain [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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