When I approached her for Umrao Jaan (1981), with Khayyam shaping the music and Shahryar giving it language, to inhabit the world of Rekha, she sensed immediately that this was not a recording — it was a reckoning.

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta distributed bicycles to around 1,000 schoolgirls under the ‘Vidya Vahini’ initiative, aiming to ease travel and promote uninterrupted education for girls. She said the initiative aims to remove barriers that often prevent girls from continuing their studies