What can we say about Alisha Abdullah that hasn’t been said already?

Indian music is undergoing a sea change of sorts. From seasoned veterans to up-and-coming talented fledglings, everyone seems to be thinking out of the box, unmindful of adhering to age-old tra ditions. The latest among these trends is the adding of a new-age twist to the sacred genre of Carnatic music.

She’s young, dynamic and successful. Shailja Gupta, head of Red Chillies Entertainment (US), has just unveiled yet another creative gem. The artist-filmmaker’s latest digital art project, ‘Glimpses — 100 years of Indian Cinema’ is a unique artistic tribute.

The spunky Vishakha Singh might have turned several heads with her performances in films like Fukrey and Bajatey Raho, but there’s one more thing she likes to turn — the pages of a b

The Watterson documentary is all set to release in November this year!

She’s only 20, but Natania Lalwani’s delightful take on acoustic pop has taken her places already.

The 22-year old fashion enthusiast from Mumbai writes a blog, ‘Purple Peeptoes’, which comes like a breath of fresh air in cliché-ridden blogosphere.

Bhavya Pandit’s career as a singer was perhaps foreseeable.

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are one of tinsel town’s hottest couples- but they’re also notorious for being immensely private. Recently, 007 even lost his cool at a fan who snapped a picture of him and his wife shopping, and threatened to destroy it, enraged at their invasion of privacy.

From ragas and swaras, to metal and progressive, to jazz and indie — this past decade has seen urban Indian music embrace the experimental genre like never before, even deviating from the tried and tested formula of rock ‘n’ roll into more versatile streams. But is there really an audience for these independent performers?