On August 15, the familiar growls of mike-testing (“ Hullo hullo hullo ”) in our para began early. One or two renderings of Jana Gana Mana and Sare jahaan se achchha followed.

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Many local music composers are making peppy tracks for the Ganesh Chaturthi festival this year. TOI reports

Apple is expected to announce "social streaming" for iTunes, an update on iPods and (possibly) more on AppleTV. Stay with us from 6pm. 6.00pm: Jack Johnson fades to mute and we begin. Steve Jobs enters stage right to whoops and hollers. 5.58pm: "Switch your phones to silent, please," asks a mystery voice from behind the black curtain. On the projector comes the scene from California, lots of ...