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Sayantan Neogi

The Revolving Doors

The morning newspaper headline read that the government in power in India was going populist as an effect of the dynamics between them and an ally who was in the process of severing their coalition. Today I think of the

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Saswat Pattanayak

Woody Guthrie: I Was In The Revolution…

Woody Guthrie, the labour organiser and agitator who redefined the entire genre of folk music through his political philosophy, was an unrepentant Marxist-Leninist, an avowed supporter of Joseph Stalin and a lifelong adherent of Communism. By today’s standard, it is

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Sayan Bhattacharya

Saat Khoon Maaf – Vishal Bhardwaj

Vishal Bharadwaj is back and this time he has“Blaad” on his hands. Put your hands together for “7 Khoon Maaf ” and no points for guessing what the movie is about. Vishal has once more teamed up with his favourite

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Sayantan Neogi

Pam Crain Avant-garde Futility

Staying fairly unnoticed, uncelebrated and unsung is usually considered vain in show business or for that matter, any business. Being respected and revered still, is extremely rare. And if it’s a genre like Jazz in the 50’s in India, it’d

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Sayantan Neogi

Wasting Light – Foo Fighters

Dave as the every person’s Rock God, but it also recasts the Foos as more of an actual, collective band than ever. This is the best Foo Fighters album since ‘The Color And The Shape’. After announcing itself with feedback-drenched

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Sayantan Neogi

Preview – INXS – Original Sin

80’s giants INXS has announced the release of their 12th studio album titled ‘Original Sin’ in January 2011, which was released digitally last year in October and has already become somewhat of a rage. The band has recorded several of

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Abhishek Chatterjee

Super Heavy

Empirically speaking, supergroups have never been particularly successful, either critically or commercially (The Travelling Wilburys and Velvet Revolver notwithstanding). So when Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart put together a band of successful and diverse musicians (Joss Stone, Damien Marley and