'Baka Nodi

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Paban Das Baul takes a philosophical view in this very beautiful desi track.

Image Day - Paanchvi Pass

Shahrukh Khan speaks to the media on the sets of his forthcoming tv-quiz show "Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?" (Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?) in Mumbai. Khan will host the show and the prize money will be $1.25 million.

> Reuters Pictures

Moments with Nusrat

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The magic of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan unleashed, to a very-receptive audience.

Pather Panchali - The Train Scene

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Scenes from Satyajit Ray's innovative film made on a shoe-string budget. Simple sights and sounds are masterly transformed into a dazzling display of wonder.

Sampanwala

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King of modern-baul music Paban Das Baul, takes us on a journey in this video.

Shikwa - Part three

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's exquisite & enthralling rendition of Shikwa by Allama Iqbal.

> Shikwa: One - Two

RIP - Writer Sujatha

S. Rangarajan, the author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a volume of poems, has passed away.

Better known for scripting movies like Iruvar, Boys, Kannathil Muthamittaal, Sivaji, Aayutha Ezhutthu. His dialogues were realistic, so full of life, the sort that struck a chord in you and stayed with you for days, or maybe even years.

A dialogue that comes to mind from Aayutha Ezhuththu: Esha Deol tells Surya, “Enna ni, enna oththrum-illaada theatre-ko, Pondicherry-ko kootindu poegaama edho oru graamathuku aleichindu porai….”

Via Numbskulls page

A Beautiful Soul

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Paban Das Baul briefly envisages utopia, through, a wise man called Muhammad'.

Image Day - Amitabh Bachchan

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan acting in symphony, during the shooting of a new movie on in the northern Indian city of Agra.

> Reuters Pictures

Mohabbat Karne Wale

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Classic Mehdi Hassan offering on a basic human emotion, known as love to some.

Agneepath

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Scenes from Agneepath, featuring Amitabh-Bachchan's disillusioned angry-character.

The Story of Bangladesh

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A short-film containing the truth about Bangladesh. A repressed voice of a freedom-fighter overcomes all barriers to tell us his story. Although he donated his limbs for a so-called freedom, his disability has become a mockery.

Nazrul had written >
Osho'hai jati moriche dubiya, jane'na shontho'ron,
Kandari! Aaj dekhibo tumar matri-mukti'phon.

'Hindu na Muslim?' Oo'i jigga'she kun-jon?
Kandari! Bolo dubiche manush, shon'than m'or ma-r!

Bangladesh Blogger says:

Shame on myself, for the infidelity of consciousness.

Post via Bangladesh-Blogger

Image Day - Sanjay Dutt's Manyata

Sanjay Dutt poses with his wife Manyata after a brief ceremony in Mumbai.

> Reuters Pictures

Shikwa - Part two

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's exquisite & enthralling rendition of Shikwa by Allama Iqbal.

> Shikwa: One - Three

O Sanam

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Lucky Ali's excellent track from his album 'Sunoh'. Definitely his most imaginative.

Image Day - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Members of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi cremation-committee surround the body of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Beatles guru died at his home on Feb. 5th, 2008.

> AP Images

Main Azaad Hoon

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Scenes from Amitabh Bachchan's Main Azaad Hoon, depicting the adverse reality.

Bulla Ki Jaana

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Bulleh Shah revived distinctly by Rabbi Shergill, in an eponymous Desi Track.

Mast-Nazron 'Se

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan performs an iconic desi love-track, with perfect-solitude.

Image Day - "Elizabeth - The Golden Age"

Director Shekhar Kapur (2-R) and Australian actors Abbie Cornish (L), Geoffrey Rush (2-L) and Cate Blanchett pose for photographers at the Australian premiere of their new film "Elizabeth - The Golden Age" in Sydney, November 3.

> Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)