Your ticket to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the rest of South Asia
Last month 31-year-old Siddharth Khosla and his band, Goldspot (yesss, named after the drink!) made their India debut at the One Tree Festival in Mumbai. The LA band led by an Indian singer (aka Sid) is inspired both by Coldplay and Kishore Kumar and is candid about its Bollywood influence. Check out their hit Friday in this Youtube video:
My thanks to Sohail Hashmi for sending this classic interview of Kishore Kumar by Pritish Nandy, conducted circa 1985 and published in the Illustrated Weekly of India
Pritish Nandy: I understand you are quitting Bombay and going away to Khandwa…
Kishore Kumar: Who can live in this stupid, friendless city where everyone seeks to exploit you every moment of the day? Can you trust anyone out here? Is anyone trustworthy? Is anyone a friend you can count on? I am
determined to get out of this futile rat race and live as I’ve always wanted to. In my native Khandwa, the land of my forefathers. Who wants
to die in this ugly city?
