Category: Music
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A digression to begin with Back to my all-time favorite thing in the world – Music. When I find a moment to step away from the distraction of planetary destruction – and I understand I’m trivializing the rape of Mother Earth by calling it a “distraction” but I feel helpless about it and that’s a…
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It was probably 1996 when I first got a copy of “August and Everything After”. When I heard “Mr Jones”, I remembered a friend back home talking about it in early 1995 after MTV had first made its appearance in India, through Star TV from Hong Kong. I didn’t pay it too much attention. I…
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My earliest memory of music – professionally produced music, that is – is the sound of my mom’s radio playing Marathi music every morning. The radio sat on our small fridge (to the best of my recollection) in the kitchen and played mostly music from Marathi movies as my mom made breakfast and lunch for…