Jaidev Verma was born in Nairobi, Kenya (East Africa) on August 3, 1919. His father served as a railway official there. After his father passed away in 1943, Jaidev arranged his sister, Ved Kumari’s ...

The English intellectual poet John Dryden said, “It's fate that flings the dice...” So very true. Who could empathise with the quirks of fate better than the ever-marginalised composer Jaidev Verma?

Romantics are gushing through the ears and the trigger is Dharmendra crooning – अभी न जाओ छोड़कर – to Shabana Azmi which culminates in an impromptu kiss in ‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani’. The ...

On January 26, 1952, Hanwant Singh, the 28-year-old Maharaja of the erstwhile princely state of Jodhpur, and his wife, the former actress Zubeida (now christened Vidya Rani), got into his Beechcraft ...