🎶 A Life in Music: From Radios to Records
My Passions I’ve spoken at length in earlier blogs about two big passions of my life: books and cinema. Another passion that has been a constant companion is music. For many of us, music is inseparable from life itself. It entertains, meditates, exhilarates, and sometimes brings a touch of melancholy. Music makes us dance, uplifts our spirits, and often moves us to tears. Truly, life would be empty without it. Unlike books or films, when we recall a song, we don’t just remember it—we hum it, sing it, and relive it. Such is the impact of music on our lives. Childhood Encounters with Music While I enjoy different genres, my heart belongs to Bollywood music, especially the oldies from the 1950s to the 1970s. As a child, however, I was hilariously “dumb” about music. I didn’t realize songs had meaning. Much to my elder sister’s irritation, I would sing random, meaningless words, insisting that songs were just tunes—sad when the hero was sad, happy when he was happy. Looking b...
