From ‘Salaam Bombay’ to ‘Chakalaka Baby’ to the alluring tune of ‘Chaiyya, Chaiyya’ Chaiyya’, Bombay Dreams – Andrew Lloyd Webber and R.R. Rehman’s musical – manages to keep the audience engrossed in a melodrama based on fabled Indian movie themes of the fight between the good and the evil.
While Bombay Dreams is not as inventive or innovative as one would have expected from the creative skills of Mr. Webber, who after all has hit after hit on Broadway including “Phantom of the Opera” and “Cats’ – but it keeps the …

Listening to Pakistani Sufi singer Abida Parveen has often been described as a divine experience, but the singer says she often hopes that rulers in India and Pakistan would listen more carefully to her message of peace.
“In Sufism, there is only peace,” Parveen said. “I have always believed that music and the arts is the best way to achieve peace.
“When I sing, I sing of peace, of harmony and culture.” Often called the heir to the legendary Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Parveen is today perhaps the world’s most renowned …