A lot has been written about Pancham, especially after his death. Here you will find some of the articles/interviews written/taken by his friends, fans and journalists. Many of these have been extracted from postings on the Pancham group and the newsgroup Rec.Music.Indian.Misc (RMIM). The copyrights to these belong to the respective owners (authors/publishers).

If you know of any article about Pancham or his music that you want other fans to read, please send it to me.

Interviews

• What makes 'Pancham' tick (Part-1) & Part 2 (PDF) - Interview by Chaitanya Padukone - Mid-Day (Courtesy Chaitanya) 21 July 1983
• "My God, that's my tune" (PDF) - Interview based article by V. S. Gopalakrishnan & Meera Pandya - Filmfare (Courtesy Pete Gavankar & Salim Shah) June 1984
• RD-Asha Interface (PDF) - by Girija Rajendran - Screen (Sent by Sudhir Kulkarni) 14 April 1989
• An Unpublished Interview (Part-1) & Part-2 (JPG) - by Sheila Vesuna - Movie (Sent by Anshul Chobey) - Published after Pancham's death in Feb. 94

Published Articles on Pancham

• And Then There Was Silence... (JPG) by Jitesh Pillai - Filmfare (Sent by Girish Iyer) Feb 2007
• Rahul and I - Asha remembers Pancham (JPG) as told to Jitesh Pillai - Filmfare (Sent by Anshul Chobey)
• A Continuing Nostalgia by Anirudha Bhattacharjee (Posted by Devdan Mitra) Jan 2002
• The Lost Generation by Abhijit Dasgupta (Sent by Anshul Chobey) Jan 94
• When the beat stopped by Ajitabh Menon (Sent by Anshul Chobey) Feb 94
• Nostalgia by Subhash K Jha Feb 98
• Trendsetter by Raju Bharatan (Posted by Raju Bathija) Jan 94
• The Sound of RD's Music by Raju Bharatan (Posted by Rajan Parrikar) 94
• And now there is Silence by Gulzar (Posted by Amin Meghani) Feb 94
• The Swan Song (Posted by Vandana Venkateshan) Jan 94
• Pancham Passion by Subhash K Jha (Posted by Satish Subramaniam) 97
• In Memoriam by Raju Bharatan (Posted by Raju Bathija) Jan 96
• Remembering RD by Raju Bharatan (Posted by Raju Bathija) Jan 97
• Sparklers : Pancham and his Music by Seema Sinha (Posted by Vandana Venkateshan) Jan 94
• Song Sung Blue : Rahul Dev Burman by Subhash K Jha Feb 98
• R D Burman: The Singer of a Timeless Song (PDF) by Asif Alvi Jan 2010
• Music so vigorous, colourful, flippant by Shyam Hardikar (Shared by Asif Alvi) Nov 79
• परंपराओं के बंधन को नकारता लहराता संगीत by Dr. Indu Bishnoi (Shared by Asif Alvi) July 80

Listeners' Corner

• Those Magical RD Piano Keys by Ali Rashid
• Letters to Filmfare by Asif Alvi
  • June 90
  • Oct 90
  • Oct 92
  • June 94
• Magic Moments : RD - Gulzar by Ashish Bokil
  • Phir wohi raat hai (Ghar)
  • Ummeed hogi koi (Dil Padosi Hai)
  • Ye saaye hai (Sitara)
  • Raah pe rahte haiN (Namkeen)
  • Do nainoN meiN aaNsooN bhare haiN (Khushboo)
  • Din ja rahe haiN ke raatoN ke saaye (Doosari Seeta)
  • Jaane kya sochkar nahiN guzra (Kinara)
  • Jaane kaise beeteNgi ye barsaateiN (Basera)

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