Music
-
Farewell, 2025!
2025 is coming to an end, and taking with it some gorgeous memories. Continue reading
-
Farewell, Ozzy Osbourne: The Dark Will Remember
While the world already saw Ozzy Osbourne as being the ‘Prince of Darkness’, he helped breed the myth even further. Continue reading
-
Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s final live performance
Last week, Black Sabbath performed the concert, ‘Back To The Beginning’, which marked lead vocalist Ozzy Osbourne and their final live show. Continue reading
-
Dikhaayi Diye Yun by Mir Taqi Mir – Translation and Summary
In this post, I attempt to decode and summarise the timeless ghazal ‘Dikhayi Diye Yun’ by Mir Taqi Mir. Continue reading
-
Desert Island Discs
It is a simple concept in which music aficionados, bearing in mind that they have got lost either in a desert or an island, select ONLY eight tracks that they will keep with them throughout their time in exile. Continue reading
-
Society, Genius and John Mayer
The question is – what kind of treatment ought society mete out to Mayer, or men of similar genius? Continue reading
-
Watching Deep Purple perform
Part of a festival called Bandland, which took place on 16th and 17th December in Bangalore, the ‘fathers’ of hard rock stunned the crowd with brilliant renditions. Continue reading
-
Music review: Appetite for Destruction by Guns N’ Roses
The sounds on Appetite, in my opinion, have not been matched by the band as yet, although 1991’s Use Your Illusion comes quite close. Continue reading
-
Music Review: Kill ‘Em All by Metallica
Featuring brilliance in the fast percussion, low-register chords and shredding, Kill ‘Em All is one of the pioneering albums of the genre. Continue reading
-
Music Review: Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones
Gentle in its hues and soft in its approach, apart from Exile on Main Street, it is perhaps the album that defined the band through the late 60s and early 70s. Continue reading
Mohul is a national-level cricketer, poet, sports journalist, travel writer and essayist from Hyderabad, India.
Copyright © 2015 by Mohul Bhowmick.
All rights reserved. No part of Soliloquy may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author.
Soliloquy 