Ashis Ghatak

Jul 20, 2024 | newindianexpress.com | Ashis Ghatak |Smitha Verma

There can’t be any more beautiful coincidences than winning the highest international musical honour the same day as the one where your biography is released. Shankar Mahadevan’s feat highlights how talent and hard work pays off. Mahadevan is part of the Indo-jazz group Shakti, with guitarist John McLaughlin and tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, and the group won this year’s Grammy for the Best Global Music Album with This Moment.

Jul 1, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Ashis Ghatak

As the car took the steep upward curve of Pankhabari Road in West Bengal's Kurseong, a long-lost tune of the hills started to revisit me. My wanton imagination conjured up scattered images, and every little bend through the vast undulations of tea gardens, with the pattering of stray yellow leaves on the windscreen, had me feel as if I was back home. The hills are where my home lies, and everything within their expanse is much of my own.

May 2, 2024 | shethepeople.tv | Ashis Ghatak

The Musical Maverick is the first and only definitive authorized biography of a talent that emerges once a century— Shankar Mahadevan. Extensively researched and packed with endearing incidents and enduring accounts from the life of an artist who has been hailed as one of the greatest of all time. This biography captures Shankar at his most multifaceted: singer, musician, composer, friend, family man, guru and, ultimately, iconic artist and man beloved by millions.

Feb 29, 2024 | lifestyle.livemint.com | Ashis Ghatak

Home > How To Lounge> Books > LAST PUBLISHED 29.02.2024  |  04:19 PM IST ‘Breathless’ earmarked two significant events. Firstly, Shankar Mahadevan became a star. The music video featuring the singer himself started beaming on numerous TV channels and took the song to every corner of the country. Indi-pop music got a new fillip as experimentation reached unimaginable heights.

Feb 16, 2024 | thetravellertrails.in | Ashis Ghatak

One is familiar with the most clichéd metaphor of Kashmir being the ‘Switzerland of India’. Some years back when I had a trek in Kashmir, I was baffled and tried to figure out why the diadem of beauty is conferred on the European country alone. And later when I chanced upon Kashmir in winter, it reaffirmed my belief that it could in no way stand second fiddle to any European destination, so to speak. The road that led us to the hotel was like the parting of a grey-haired lady.