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Panelist at Spectrum Litfest 2014, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Retrospect

'My humps... my humps... my humps... my lovely lady lumps ' the girl form the reality show sings and off goes the television (as long as the remote control is in the hands of my pseudo-orthodox daddy dear). 'What has happened to songs nowadays? Gone is that time when songs used to be meaningful and music melodious. Now it's just shouting, swearing and skin show.' My dad would start and go on... And of course he held his set of prejudices against American songs, although I must agree with him, most of the songs today are nothing but commercial ventures for cacophonous idiots, I would specifically mention Lady Gaga & Daddy Yankee in that list (Bieber is excluded, coz I think he is given few good songs like Never say Never & Baby one just has to think his age to like him). I would rather like to call that Gaga girl Lady Bowbow (no offence). Right now I am going share some of the best songs from that era, I wasn't even born then, yet I feel nostalgic