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Born and raised in Byculla, Bombay, daughter of a cop who used to be responsible for Mahatma Gandhi’s security bandobast, and adopted for life by Calcutta, Usha Uthup is the voice and spirit of the Swinging Sixties that the eastern metropolis was synonymous with till the Bangladesh War and the red shadow of Naxalism changed it forever.

Now, honoured with the Padma Bhushan, along with her ‘Disco Dancer’ star Mithun Chakraborty, 12 years after she was conferred the Padma Shri, Usha Uthup (formerly Iyer), the Queen of Indian Pop famous for her husky voice, boundless energy, distinctive red bindi and tastefully selected Kanjivarams, sang herself into popular imagination with two anthemic numbers of Hindi cinema’s disco era — Hari Om Hari and Aha Nache Nache.

Not formally trained in music, Uthup got her first singing break in a nightclub in Madras before she moved to Trincas, the Mecca of Park...

Bhopal, Feb 3 (Ians) Madhya Pradesh’s Dev Kumar Meena rewrote the pole vault national youth record during his gold medal effort at the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Madhya Pradesh (KIYG2022MP), here on Friday.

Dev Kumar recorded a jump of 4.91m to break Rakesh Gond’s previous national mark of 4.90m. However, that effort of his could not stop Maharashtra from holding on to the top spot in the medal tally at the end of day five on account of having more silvers, as both they and the hosts Madhya Pradesh tallied 14 golds at the end of the fifth day.

In the track events, Doondapati Jayara of Odisha and Tamanna of Haryana emerged as the fastest boy and girl in the competition in the 100m dash.

Besides Dev Kumar, the stars of the day certainly were Jayara, whose time of 10.53 secs would have been a national youth record but for wind assistance and Tamanna,...

Revival of the Holi bash at Rk studios: There was a time when on Holi day, all roads in Bollywood led to Raj Kapoor’s residence where a huge colour pond awaited every star. You were dunked into it regardless of whether you were Dev Anand or Dev Kumar, Asha Parekh or Asha Sachdev. Kahaan gaye wow din? It’s time to bring back the colour in Rk studios. What say, Ranbir? Ranveer SinghRead More

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