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Published: 21 November 2017

Last Updated: 21 November 2017

Many of you know about the long hours M V Surender put into searching the Indian Express archive to find interesting stuff that I host on my website. I have found it to be very useful in my work. Now one more person has found it to be of immense use.

He is Sugeeth Krishnamoorthy, the young software professional who has brought out an ebook 'Talkie Experiences in Tamil', translation of a 1938 publication

http://shakespir.com/ebook/talkie-experiences-in-tamil-194291

He writes in his Foreword,

"I am also thankful to Prof.Surjit Singh and M.V.Surender for hosting and maintaining rare ‘out of copyright’ material from the Indian Express Archives on their website. It has been of immense help to me. "

Now you know!

Listen to Narsingh 699

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Published: 11 October 2017

Last Updated: 11 October 2017

Just in case people think that use of English words in songs is a new phenomenon. I take you back all the way to the theater days. Her is a song written by the famous playwright Agha Hashr Kashmiri for the drama Silver King:

kyon chhipaayee laa de bhaee Khaalis whiskey
rang ho jis men Miss kee
aur lazzat ho jis men Kiss kee

which loosely translates as

O brother, bring it, why have you hidden pure whiskey
which has the color of a Miss
and which has the bliss of a kiss

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 Listen to Badrinath (1967)

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Published: 30 March 2018

Last Updated: 30 March 2018

Here is Leela Chitnis offering her views on type-casting, in 1952!

Now you know!

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