It is customary to add ‘sweet’ before 16. That is how the hosts of the social game Tambola/Housie describe this number in their sing-song style. How sweet was SOY’s 16th year, or did it simply clock another year? The judgement rests with the readers, for me it was a pleasant experience.
As the readers are now aware, the blog was born on 7th June, therefore, its anniversary spans two calendar years. However, for some years, I have been dedicating the year to a music personality – generally from beginning of the calendar year to its end. 2025 happened to be celebrated as the year of RD Burman. I find there has been a dozen articles on him, some contributed by the guest authors, Ashok M Vaishnav and Dr Rajesh Deshpande. For SOY, which had a pronounced bias towards golden and vintage era music, this did seem to be an overkill. But there was also a revelation that RD Burman had a lot of fans, even among the lovers of old melody.READ THE FULL ARTICLE