{"id":94636,"date":"2016-02-18T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=94636"},"modified":"2016-02-18T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:46:12","slug":"there-is-a-new-record-for-most-bollywood-lyrics-ever-written-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/there-is-a-new-record-for-most-bollywood-lyrics-ever-written-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is a New Record for Most Bollywood Lyrics Ever Written, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94669\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/screen-shot-2016-02-17-at-8.26.46-pm.png\" alt=\"&quot;Tu Dharti Pe Chahe Jahan Bhi Rahegi&quot;\" width=\"618\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/screen-shot-2016-02-17-at-8.26.46-pm.png 618w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/screen-shot-2016-02-17-at-8.26.46-pm-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cTu Dharti Pe Chahe Jahan Bhi Rahegi\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Lyricist Sameer Anjaan has entered <em>The\u00a0Guinness Book of World Records<\/em>\u2014they had to make a new category\u2014for writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/music\/3-524-songs-650-films-1-world-record-meet-lyricist-sameer-anjaan\/story-Vo6eIxmaNq3GBSNvoYIfuM.html\" target=\"_blank\">the greatest number of Bollywood\u00a0songs, ever<\/a>. By the numbers: 3,524 songs, 650 films, 33 years. Writes his biographer, \u201cSameer was a hit both with the fans and the singers because he wrote songs that did not require dictionary to understand. He wrote in the language of the common people.\u201d Listen to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i9JJkweXBbA\" target=\"_blank\">top twenty-five\u00a0songs<\/a> here.<\/li>\n<li>In other lyrical news:\u00a0Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2000\/08\/17\/arts\/opera-review-a-prince-idealizes-his-love-from-afar.html\">L\u2019Amour de loin<\/a><\/em>\u00a0will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera as part of its 2016\u20132017 season\u2014the first opera by a woman the company has mounted since 1903.<\/li>\n<li>Female spies in seventeenth-century Northern Europe had all sorts of ingenious means of transporting information, writes historian Nadine Ackerman, author of\u00a0\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwo.nl\/en\/research-and-results\/research-projects\/i\/07\/6307.html\">Female Spies or \u2018she-Intelligencers\u2019: Towards a Gendered History of Seventeenth-Century Espionage<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0The women\u2014who ranged from poets to bakers, aristocrats to peasants\u2014were generally considered unsuspicious, even in\u00a0times of war, and if caught did not face the capital punishment of their male counterparts. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/17th-century-female-spies-smuggled-information-through-eggs-and-artichokes\" target=\"_blank\">a pair videos<\/a>, the author re-creates several of their espionage methods: using artichokes and hollow eggs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In many ways, we are less intrigued by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/02\/17\/465627948\/holy-ravioli-cookbook-reveals-the-vaticans-favorite-recipes\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Vatican Cookbook<\/em><\/a> revealing the Holy Father\u2019s love of pizza than by the fact that such information is \u201cas told by members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard.\u201d It seems like breaking some kind of seal, or at least NDA, but no! In fact! \u201cPolish nuns do the majority of cooking at the Vatican, but the Swiss Guard chefs do step in to make food on formal occasions or to fulfill a special request. Though a guard cooking is a rarity, these men know more about the Pope\u2019s eating habits than anyone else, since they are no more than a few steps from him at all times.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat does it mean to shift overnight from a society in which people walk down the street looking around to one in which people walk down the street looking at machines?\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/25\/we-are-hopelessly-hooked\/\" target=\"_blank\">asks Jacob Weisberg\u00a0in <em>The\u00a0New York Review of Books<\/em><\/a>. Writing about four new books that plumb different aspects of our dependence on\u2014ambivalent relationship to\u2014technology, he finds that most raise more questions than they answer\u2014we\u2019re still living the answer in real time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyricist Sameer Anjaan has entered The\u00a0Guinness Book of World Records\u2014they had to make a new category\u2014for writing the greatest number of Bollywood\u00a0songs, ever. By the numbers: 3,524 songs, 650 films, 33 years. Writes his biographer, \u201cSameer was a hit both with the fans and the singers because he wrote songs that did not require dictionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[21210,6215,64,8813,79,46,149,2204,1718,13487,8812,224,9233,36],"class_list":["post-94636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-ballywood","tag-catholicism","tag-cookbooks","tag-espionage","tag-film","tag-music","tag-news","tag-opera","tag-records","tag-songs","tag-spies","tag-technology","tag-the-pope","tag-women"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There is a New Record for Most Bollywood Lyrics Ever Written, and Other 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