NS Rajan

NS Rajan

NS Rajan is a retired senior IRS Officer and has been a  permanent resident of Bangalore for a long time now. He is an avid reader and a sports lover, particularly cricket, having watched many greats in action from the late 1940s (he has played cricket at a fairly competitive level). He listens to music of all genres, is fascinated by Hindi film music of the ‘golden era’ and has written many essays on composers, lyricists and singers.

Rajan loves to sing and spends some of his time singing on his Karaoke system. He likes to write and has contributed articles, short stories and letters to newspapers and magazines, some of which have been published in Silhouette Magazine and LnC.

Rajan is very fond of travelling and learning about new and fascinating places and is a keen observer of all that he sees, hears and observes during his travels. Travel and photography usually always go together and Rajan has been interested in photography from his teens, weaned on a German  ‘Zeiss Ikon’. His abiding love for travel and photography inspired him to write an illustrated book on his trip to the USA, “The Go West Odyssey”, including in it a number of pictures taken by him during the trip. He works actively to keep himself engaged in some mental pursuit or the other and to keep himself mentally and physically fit at the ripe old age of 87

My Book(s)

Amazon Bestseller
Go West Odyssey: How I Saw America in 19 Days

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Amazon Bestseller
Go West Odyssey: How I Saw America in 19 Days

Original price was: $19.99.Current price is: $0.00.

And The Music Lives On

And The Music Lives On

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Bakul Katha

Bakul Katha — Tale of the Emancipated Woman by Ashapurna Devi

Defiant Dreams

Defiant Dreams

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We Are What We Are

We Are What We Are

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Cloudburst: The Womanly Deluge

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THE BODY OF MEMORIES

THE BODY OF MEMORIES: A COLLECTION OF MEMOIRS & PERSONAL ESSAYS

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The Broken Home

The Broken Home: English Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nastanirh

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Thwarted Escape

Thwarted Escape: An Immigrant’s Wayward Journey

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Legends Speak

Legends Speak (Bengali Women’s Narratives In Translation)

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Blog

Selected Writings

In The Media

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Director’s Chair – Hindi Cinema’s Golden Age: In Conversation with Manek Premchand

A distinguished music critic, Hindi film connoisseur and author, Manek Premchand has always been fascinated by Hindi cinema’s music.

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A medley of theme, theory, technique, and reason, yet modest in presentation!

Gopal Lahiri’s book ‘Crossing the Shoreline’ (2022) published by Haoajan Publishers is the book under review. This book contains 90 selected poems divided into three groups under the tags:

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Book Review: Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets written by Gopal Lahiri reviewed by Nabanita Sengupta

That some books should be judged by their cover, is evident from poet Gopal Lahiri’s newest anthology of poems – Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets. The hardbound book has an enigmatic painting on its cover

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Book Review: Voices Within-Edited by Gopal Lahiri

Ornately laden with passionately sensitive expressions of human emotions centred around ideas, beliefs, doctrines, love, loss, illness, and death, and most tellingly, a steadfast commitment to poetry, Voices Within edited by Gopal Lahiri and published by Setu Publications USA is a satisfying read.

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Return to Solitude: Juxtaposing love with wounds

Gopal Lahiri is an internationally acclaimed and widely published poet based in Kolkata. A Geo-physicist by profession and a poet by choice, the earth, its flora and fauna seep into his work as comfortably as do complex emotions.

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Book Review: Some Resonance Some Desire- Selected Poems by Gopal Lahiri

Shyamasri Maji reviews Gopal Lahiri’s latest poetry collection Some Resonance Some Desire observing how Lahiri mixes memories with the desire to re-view life from an optimistic angle.

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I have always revered the Mahatma but I learnt to love him as a man, through Ballad of Bapu.

Santosh Bakaya is the first of Gandhi’s innumerable biographers to envision his life as a poetic saga. In the Ballad of Bapu, she has produced a tour de force that spans his life, including many little- known episodes. Her exuberant language brings Gandhi’s spirit vividly to life like never before, and explores the varied potential […]

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When it comes to Shiladitya Sarkar

When it comes to Shiladitya Sarkar, there is more to look and feel than there is to say—hence the rather apt title to his recent works of art, Implicit Conversations.

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A Passage to (the Contemporary Art of) India

Intermission at Bass Concert Hall got a lot more interesting last month when Kala Fine Art filled the building with 80 large pieces of contemporary art from India

Videos

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Kashmir Pen Presents Sunday Kehwa Sips with Dr Santosh Bakaya

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Panorama International Literature Festival 2025

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Talking Books – Trishna Saha & Lopamudra Banerjee | Were Wonders: The Abandoned Fighter |

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TALKING BOOKS – Avijit Sarkar in Conversation with Lopamudra Banerjee

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Lopa Banerjee in Conversation with Shefali Chopra

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PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2023: Lopa Banerjee, USA

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The World Will Hear Us Sing – Sourodeep Sarkar | War of the Bands 2k24 | Theme Song | LIVE

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Boscoverse – Sourodeep Sarkar | Bosco Fest 2k23 | Theme Song

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One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful | Cover by Sourodeep Sarkar

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Sourodeep Sarkar – All We Have (Official 4K Video)

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Silent Night – Sourodeep Sarkar | Christmas Carols | Lyric Video

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Can You Feel The Love Tonight (Vocal Cover) | Sourodeep Sarkar