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Published: 17 August 2018

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How time files! It was on August 16, 2017 that I started musing. One year! Of course, the number is not 365 because it is almost daily, not strictly daily. I can tell you in all honesty that I have not even scratched the upper layer of the surface of my collection to  muse about. Here is the first installment of the list of Rafi's MDs.It is from the Rafi book by Saleem-ul-Haq, which itself is based on the one by Pradhan and Menghani. (Sri Ganti had asked for it.)

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Folk Music 4

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Published: 06 March 2019

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Baby Nargis attempts to kill herself and other news from April 1946.

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Rafi 244

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Published: 22 May 2018

Last Updated: 22 May 2018

An excellent book on the 25 year history (1970-1995), of Music, Dance, Theater and Cinema from all over India, written by dozens of experts, with dozen board members. It covers all of the provinces, is in 2 volumes, has more than 700 pages. Ravi Shankar, B D Garg and Snajit Narwekar are contributors, among others.

It pains me to report that they put a photo of a person definitely not K L Saigal and labeled it as such. Amazing that so many qualified people could not see that. The writer of this particular article was born in 1918, must have seen at least one photo of Saigal somewhere.

Abhay Jain, Mothers' Day 2010