INTERVIEW F George Brooks SOUND Sajid-Wajid REGULARS F Offbeat: Strum the Junk! Venue Watch: BOXFebruary 2011 I Volume 1 I Issue 7 I ` 150 Bflat, Bengaluru Watch Tower: Bengaluru ww Right E Clause and Here, Effect SIMCA challenges the Copyright Board Right constitution Now E Sing Along! Are we about to witness the boom of karaoke in the country? E E E Rajya Sabha MP, script writer, lyricist and now, crusader for the creative fraternity. Saptak, Javed Akhtar on why he is convinced the Baajaa Gaajaa Indian Copyright Act should be amended 2011 kicks off with interesting music fests across the country I Publisher’s Note SOUND Final Act? BOX n a few days’ time, on February 21, both Houses of the Indian parliament February 2011 I Volume 1 I Issue 7 Iwill reconvene for the Budget session. MASTHEAD It remains to be seen whether parliamentary business will be struck by the same state of paralysis that characterized the Winter session a few months back. However, indications are that the government has been goaded into a PUBLISHER Nitin Tej Ahuja more flexible and accommodative stance on the opposition’s main demand of
[email protected] a JPC investigation into the telecom spectrum auction controversy. Therefore, EDITOR it is possible that we may have a normal parliamentary session. Of course, Aparna Joshi the word ‘normal’ is used here rather generously given our parliamentarians’
[email protected] propensity for drama and shenanigans. CREATIVE DIRECTOR Sajid Moinuddin www.hbdesign.in From the music industry’s perspective, the million dollar question undoubtedly is whether this session will see the coming into law of the very CORRESPONDENTS Anita Iyer contentious amendments to the Copyright Act.