The Beatles

John Lennon was a great musician, a bad bandmate, and an even worse husband, and we still celebrate him for it

October 09, 2025 10:18 pm

The Beatles' singer/songwriter John Lennon has been pardoned one too many times in his life, just because he told you to 'Imagine' a delusional and impossible world.

Express RTI: Uttarakhand finance dept questioned Beatles ashram revamp by Bimal Patel firm, state govt gave go-ahead

July 03, 2025 3:51 pm

Beatles ashram revamp controversy: While the Finance department did come around to clearing the project, it recommended obtaining a priori the approval of the Forest department, and asked the Tourism department to ensure the rate reasonableness and the fees paid to the company, the documents showed.

The Beatles and their disruptive trip to India: The 'Transcendental Meditation' that changed the Abbey Road musicians forever

May 31, 2025 8:03 am

A dive into what really happened during The Beatles' trip to the Maharishi's Ashram in Rishikesh. A place where they wrote the album that would change the course of rock music forever.

In his last interview before he succumbed to cancer, this Pune sarod player recollects how played at Paul McCartney's wedding

April 28, 2025 1:18 pm

Chinmaya Dunster, who died of cancer in February 2025, was a renowned sarod player whose compositions incorporate elements of Hindustani and Celtic music.

Hello unplugged music, goodbye printing press — inside the proposed revamp for The Beatles ashram

March 23, 2025 9:47 am

While the Tourism Department bears the consultancy cost, the Forest Department will execute the project as the ashram is situated in the tiger reserve.

‘AI shouldn’t rip off artists’: Beatles legend Paul McCartney warns of copyright threat

January 27, 2025 1:17 pm

Musicians around the world are grappling with users harnessing AI to create deepfake versions of their work.

Lucy at 50: The burdens of the mother of humanity

July 02, 2024 6:54 am

Like many mothers today, the bones of the hominin Lucy have had to bear too much -- creationists objecting to their very existence, scientific siblings taking out their conceptual hang-ups on the long-dead maters. Then there's the fact that she is resurrected by sci-fi and pop culture at regular intervals.

Sam Mendes to helm four Beatles biopics; Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr get a movie each

February 21, 2024 10:00 pm

For the first time, The Beatles, long among the stingiest rights granters, are giving full life and music rights to a movie project.

John Lennon - Murder Without a Trial review: Irresponsible Apple documentary peddles crackpot conspiracy theories

December 06, 2023 8:03 am

John Lennon - Murder Without a Trial review: John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in 1980. Open and shut case? Apple's new documentary would beg to differ.

Listen to the last Beatles' song with John, Paul, George, Ringo and AI tech

November 02, 2023 10:29 pm

Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, artificial intelligence has enabled the release of what is promised to be the last “new” Beatles song, “Now and Then".

Ashram where 'The Beatles' meditated opens for the public

December 09, 2015 5:29 pm

With the Ganga flowing quietly behind it, this abandoned ashram in Rishikesh has received many pilgrims over the years. They have picked their way through the thick undergrowth to reach the dilapidated Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ashram that once briefly housed the Beatles.

Street Art in India: Through the art of Miles Toland

June 22, 2020 6:06 pm

We met Miles Toland in Dharavi, spoke at length about Street Art and how it can educate the masses. He speaks about public art and how it also belongs to the masses and in the streets.

‘The Beatles’ Come Back To Life In A Corner Of Uttarakhand

December 11, 2015 4:33 pm