Krupa Joseph, Deccan Herald, March 5, 2020 ‘Bangalore Blues’ has seven songs made in collaboration with pianist Aman Mahajan. Read More
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Load Shedding
I love living here
On stage, under the spotlight, with an audience in front and a band behind me, that’s where I like living most of all. I discovered this when I was a little kid and would sing for my mom’s friends. Today nothing has changed. That’s still my most favourite place to be. I think i live […]
Bangalore Blues
Aman Mahajan and I have been working on the tunes in Bangalore Blues for about 6 or 7 years now. Trying it out in different formats depending on whether we have a quartet a quintet a trio, or this, o0ur favourite format, a duo. A pure piano and voice rendition of our own material, this […]
The Boss and his hungry heart
Is it fair to critique someone’s life? Is it fair to boo a musician at a concert? Is it fair for political candidates to be lampooned in public? As long as you put it out there for public consumption, I suppose it is. “One, Two, Three, Four — Mother *&%@&^,” says Springsteen. It is the […]
Lost dog returns home on the back of a motorbike
Since I’m visiting my son in America I left Brownie Wownie with my long-time driver Raju in Bangalore, India. Brownie loves him and went to his house quite happily. Apparently during some Holi carousing that included fire-crackers (grrr) set off at a temple near where Raju lives, Brownie escaped from under his watchful eye, and […]
Radical Maneuvres
DNA, Bangalore, Sunday Aug 10, 2014, by Namita Gupta
Tune in, turn on, drop out
When Sidharth Bhatia contacted me about a year ago armed with a bunch of probing questions about my life as a rock’n’roll singer in the band Human Bondage some two centuries ago (well, I exaggerate, it was in the mid-70s), frankly, I was astonished. “I’m writing a book about rock’n’roll in India, back in the […]
City Duo To Perform At Europa Jazz Festival In Romania
By Jazz Hack Radha Thomas and Aman Mahajan will perform at the jazz festival in Bucharest, Romania Famous vocalist Radha Thomas and—Berklee-educated pianist, composer and arranger—Aman Mahajan will fly the Bangalore flag at the EUROPA Fest in Bucharest, Romania. The prestigious 2-week festival (08 May through 24 May this year) comprises performances by over […]
The birds of Bangalore
At first it was the emergency session, held by a parliament of owls outside my window in the garden last night. Woo, woo they argued, each one louder than the next. Who knew owls had so much to say? This went on for about an hour, as I tried the pillow over the head, the ear […]
Radha Thomas 