Songs of Yore Anniversaries

Songs of Yore completes 13 years

Songs Of Yore completes 13 years June 7, 2023

Today the Songs of Yore completes thirteen years. The last three years have brought great disruption in the world. In the years 2020 and 2021, the pandemic was on a rampage. The year gone by saw a debate whether Covid19 is gone or still around. Finally, the scientific opinion has veered around that this unwanted […]

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Songs of Yore completes twelve years

Songs Of Yore completes 12 years June 7, 2022

In normal times, completing twelve years of blogging would have been a matter of joy, and possibly a bit of crowing. That would look quite out of place in these unusual times. We thought that we would be getting some respite from Covid. But now there is a scare of the fourth wave hitting the […]

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Songs of Yore completes eleven years

Songs Of Yore completes eleven years June 7, 2021

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,…. it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” Charles Dickens started his “A Tale of Two Cities” with these lines. If we look at the last two […]

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Ten years of Songs of Yore

Songs of Yore Ten Years June 7, 2020

When I started blogging a new buzzword had just come into vogue: Vision 2020. We all – whether in public, private or non-profit sectors – were rushing in and out of seminars, workshops and breakout rooms, to prepare a Vision 2020 document for our organisations in nice spiral-bound volumes containing Mission Statement, Vision Statement, Objectives, […]

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Songs of Yore completes nine years

Songs of Yore Ninth Anniversary June 7, 2019

After about the fifth year, I have been approaching each anniversary of the Songs of Yore with some apprehension whether it has been able to hold the readers’ interest and maintain quality. As I look back on the ninth year completing today, I am quite satisfied, and a great deal of the credit goes to […]

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Songs of Yore completes eight years

Songs of Yore eighth anniversary June 7, 2018

On the eighth anniversary of Songs of Yore, I am going to break an unwritten code I have tried to follow – keeping private and public apart. I have met SoY regulars in the NCR from time to time, and also those living in other places during my travels to the cities where I knew […]

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Songs of Yore completes seven years

Songs of Yore Seventh Aniversary June 7, 2017

Celebrating with some newly discovered gems and a tribute to Master Madan When I wrote on the sixth anniversary, I had been concerned by Gaddeswarupji’s ominous statistics that many promising blogs start losing steam in the sixth year. Seven years is ripe age for a blog. This is the stage when, I guess, a blogger […]

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Songs of Yore completes six years

Songs of Yore Sixth Anniversary June 7, 2016

Celebrating with some discovered gems and a tribute to Vidya Nath Seth I recall that on the fifth anniversary of SoY, Gaddeswarupji commented that many promising blogs start losing steam around the sixth year. The sixth year brought in some major constraints in my personal logistics. I had just taken up a new full-time assignment […]

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Songs of Yore completes five years

Songs of Yore completes 5th Anniversary June 7, 2015

Celebrating with some discovered gems, Jaunpuri, Darbari and Mukhtar Begum The fifth year of Songs of Yore has been more eventful than any preceding year. The year saw centenaries of four great music personalities – Anil Biswas, Begum Akhtar, Khursheed and Kavi Pradeep (the last one in the current calendar year). We remembered all of […]

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Songs of Yore completes four years

Songs of Yore completes four years June 7, 2014

With a tribute to Juthika Roy I have often said I started blogging स्वान्तः सुखाय. As Songs of Yore completes four years today, I find I have become a little less selfish. Now I do a lot of things that are suggested and driven by the readers. And, you don’t need a preacher to tell […]

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