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?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jaidev Verma was born in Nairobi, Kenya (East Africa) on August 3, 1919. His father served as a railway official there. After his ...

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 ...

If anything unites the entire nation, it is film music. From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Gujarat to Guwahati, it is these melodious renditions that ignite the imagination of a music aficionado. Though the ...

Abhi naa jao chhodkar. If you have heard that song, a classic from the film Hum Dono, then you have heard Jaidev Verma’s music. He is one of those erstwhile composers who left a firm imprint on the ...