India’s most patriotic song: How Lata Mangeshkar almost turned down 'Ae mere watan ke logon'
Subhash • .A few years ago — the exact date eludes me — I interviewed Lata Mangeshkar at her Peddar Road home in Mumbai. We talked of many things, among them a song that is inextricably linked with Mangeshkar’s singing voice, is emblematic of her oeuvre and, of particular relevance today, enmeshed in the national imagination