
New Delhi: Born as Robert Allen Zimmerman, American musician Bob Dylan has turned 71 today. A hugely influential figure in American popular culture, Bob Dylan at times is described as one of the key people behind creating a social unrest of early 70s. Some of his songs such as 'Blowing in the Wind' and 'The Times' were treated as the vocal interpretation of civil rights, and anti-war movements. 'Like a...

11:21 AM, May 24, 2012

Mumbai: What have we done to deserve a CM who did his masters from University of California, Berkeley, reads Rene Descartes, enjoys sushi and listens to the Doors and Bob Dylan? Must have been something very good, says Malavika Sangghvi after she met Prithviraj Chavan on the last day of electioneering at his residence late in the night for an insightful interview, free from grandstanding and hollow promises. With an...

08:38 PM, Feb 20, 2012
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2006, May 24th, Shillong, Meghalaya: The early summer rain drizzled outside the Shillong's State Central Library auditorium. As I sat inside, Lou Majaw, (aka ...

12:36 PM, Oct 07, 2011

London: A previously unheard interview with Bob Dylan revealed that he had been addicted to heroin in the early 1960s and contemplated suicide after people started calling him a genius. Excerpts from the tape, in which the 'Blowing in the Wind' singer gives an interview to his friend Robert Shelton on board a private plane in Lincoln, Nebraska bound for Denver after a concert late one night in March 1966,...

02:41 PM, May 24, 2011

I think I was about two when I first heard Bob Dylan's 'Blowing in the wind' and till date that is one of my all-time ...

11:46 AM, May 24, 2011

Shillong:Bob Dylan turns 70 on Tuesday and one of his biggest fans in India, rockstar Lou Majaw, wants Meghalaya to declare it a holiday. The man who has kept the American legend's songs alive in the northeast also wants it to be "Bob Dylan's Day". "I want the Meghalaya government to declare May 24th as an annual holiday for all educational institutions as a mark of respect to this man...

12:55 PM, May 23, 2011

City kicks off annual festival commemorating musician ...

03:13 PM, May 26, 2010

Majaw has been spreading the spirit of music in Shillong for the last six decades. ...

12:13 PM, Jan 24, 2010

A country fan says that words of "Little Buddy" are of Canadian Hank Snow. ...

12:18 PM, May 22, 2009

It's the second time in 24 years that the trio will have shared the concert stage. ...

01:20 PM, Apr 25, 2009

Watch the US presidential campaign set to the tune of Bob Dylan's classic. ...

01:47 AM, Jul 18, 2008

New Delhi: Former cricketers on Friday blamed the hype over Sachin Tendulkar's bid for his 100th international hundred and the batsmen's inability to cope with seaming conditions for India's defeats in Australia. India suffered their sixth successive Test defeat away from home, including four in England, when they lost the second Test to Australia by an innings and 68 runs in Sydney on Friday. Tendulkar's bid for an unprecedented century...

09:24 AM, Apr 08, 2008

Mumbai: International Cricket Council on Wednesday refused comments on whether it was investigating Indian cricketer Suresh Raina accompanying a woman allegedly linked with illegal bookies, saying even if any report had been sent to it on the issue, the matter will remain under wraps. We don't disclose the details of the financial deals with our commercial partners. Equally, we also don't disclose the sending of reports by the Cricket Boards ...

08:30 PM, Oct 28, 2007

Visakhapatnam: Australia captain Michael Clarke on Wednesday said the wicket was slow initially and dew played a role as they suffered a five-wicket loss to trail 0-1 in the ODI series against India. I thought 289 was a pretty good score. But Indians scored freely in the initial overs and that became the difference between the two sides. It was easy to score when dew sets in. It was really...

01:28 AM, Oct 26, 2007