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Published: 21 November 2017

Last Updated: 21 November 2017

Many of you know about the long hours M V Surender put into searching the Indian Express archive to find interesting stuff that I host on my website. I have found it to be very useful in my work. Now one more person has found it to be of immense use.

He is Sugeeth Krishnamoorthy, the young software professional who has brought out an ebook 'Talkie Experiences in Tamil', translation of a 1938 publication

http://shakespir.com/ebook/talkie-experiences-in-tamil-194291

He writes in his Foreword,

"I am also thankful to Prof.Surjit Singh and M.V.Surender for hosting and maintaining rare ‘out of copyright’ material from the Indian Express Archives on their website. It has been of immense help to me. "

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Published: 30 November 2017

Last Updated: 30 November 2017

Very few people know that G N Joshi, an employee of the HMV since 1938 was responsible for persuading many famous classical music gurus to have their music recorded. His book Down Melody Lane is full of anecdotes. In one instance he details how HMV cheated a new record company called Young India by recording their music as version music and packaging very similarly. Gulshan Kumar did the same to them years later!

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Published: 02 February 2019

Last Updated: 02 February 2019

He was the son of Niranjan Pal, son of Bipin Chandra Pal of the La-Bal-Pal fame. Colin was a publicist for many producers and involved with hundreds of films. Here is a story about corruption in film competitions.

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