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Madhuri reviews Bindu’s latest CD.

Sona’s review of Parijat’s latest CD.

‘Prayer to Love’ is pleasant to listen to, yet I missed – as I sometimes do with New Age Music – his individual touch, the strike to one’s heart with an unexpected unfolding of uniqueness.

Above the steady and peaceful flow of keyboard ground notes the voices of acoustic guitar, harp, sitar, percussion and piano are rising and falling, blending with each other, disappearing, inviting to slow down.

Komalta reviews Bharti’s album ‘Psychedelic Love Fest’

This unique, must-have CD presents delightful melodies of slide guitar, bass, dilruba, tablas, keyboard, blues harp, tamboura, saxophones, drums and percussion, and powerful, fun vocals that fill ‘Psychedelic Love Fest’ with happiness, causing one to pause in wonder at ideas questioned through Bharti’s lyrics.

Bhagawati reviewed S D Anugyan’s recently published book which she read in one go as she was unable to put it down.

From his latest book it is obvious that Anugyan has explored an intriguing new voice to create a livre noire, a deep thriller. A challenging read with at times uncommon vocabulary that further enhances the descriptive prose; landscapes and sceneries open uncannily before one’s inner eye.

Sangit Om reviews Chinmaya Dunster’s latest album.

Michael Diamond writes about Nandin and her newly-released album.

Marc explores two books by Yuval Noah Harari, who came to the conclusion that “Having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods, and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus.”

There are not many authors who can keep my curiosity and attention for a long time; Harari is one of them. Two years ago, I read his first book, Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind, as a paperback, on our holiday in Titisee, Germany.

Premdhyan’s review on Saraswati’s latest CD.

This cheerful acoustic music conveys playfulness and light-heartedness, and carries a meditative and festive energy. Alessandro Rusconi, composer and talented master of santoor, sax and guitar, combines these instruments into a unique style – inspiring, elegant and cheerful.

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Joshua reviews duo Johannes Schenk und Ishu’s debut album
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Anand Haridas reviews whosoever’s new book.

The book Shivoham Shivoham is by a man who now prefers to be called ‘whosoever’. Born in 1942, whosoever was initiated into sannyas by Osho in 1970 (as Swami Chaitanya Bharti). Osho instructed him in 1974 to conduct meditation camps and he has done so ever since. In these camps he was called ‘swamijee’ and then ‘gurudev’, before opting in 2010 for his present no name.