The Oxford Dictionary recognises the word “zombie” as “a corpse supposedly revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions”. Informally, the dictionary suggests that the word can be used in the context of an apathetic person, in a state of trance or hypnosis but responding to surrounding stimuli.

The ghost of the fracas at the Enrique Iglesias concert a few weeks ago still loomed large on the first day of the annual musical pilgrimage, the Bacardi NH7 Weekender.

MOBO award-winning UK hip-hop artist and social entrepreneur Akala introduced Hip-Hop Shakespeare to India at a LitLive gig, a combination hitherto thought unimaginable. How on earth does one combine someone as classical as Shakespeare with something as contemporary as hip-hop?

It’s perhaps the most culturally rich weekend in the year. The Mumbai Lit Fest is slated for the November 2 to 4 weekend, so are the jazz festival at the NCPA and ThiNK festival in Goa. But all roads lead to Pune’s Bacardi NH7 Weekender.

American rock heavyweights Guns ’N’ Roses have confirmed their maiden India tour in December this year.

American rock heavyweights Guns N’ Roses have confirmed their maiden India tour in December this year.

When organisers of the Enrique Iglesias concert in Pune on Wednesday night were dealt with blows by a free-pass-hungry policeman, hordes of fans and musicians across the country took to various social

Who doesn’t love an awards show, where men turn up in their best tuxes and women take turns to strike the one-legger a la Angelina? When you wake up ridiculously early to satiate your appetite for celebritydom, you expect plunging necklines, fitted suits and towering heels alongside the brilliance of writing, the genius of direction and the stupidity of some speeches.

I sat with eyes transfixed on my guru Pt Hridaynath Mangeshkar as he sang the antara of a Marathi song he had been teaching me since two days. The process involved me repeating after him each line he sang, but for some reason I was just unable to get one part of it. I was nine years old, raised in an environment of Carnatic classical music (where raga Malkaus was called Hindolam) and it had been my third class with the maestro.

There is no greater ode to a guitarist than the fact that contemporaries and generations of them that followed, find new ways to cover your songs.