'Lata didi's voice was as pure as a bell that rings in a temple.'

Sing your favourite Lata Mangeshkar song and send it to us.

'We, the Mangeshkar family, don't wish to be drawn into this controversy and this controversy should end and politics on Didi's name must be stopped.'

Long before she won royalty rights for playback singers, there was an undisclosed incident in Lataji's life where she not only put a male colleague in place, but also refused to sing with him thereafter.

I spent almost all my life trying to figure out how anyone could express so many shades of human feeling in her voice, wonders Subhash K Jha.

'It is nice to know I am remembered even now,' Lataji tells Subhash K Jha.