When you’ve worked with someone for five decades, you don’t have just one memory that you cherish. Lataji is someone I grew up with. We lived close by, and back then, she wasn’t Lata Mangeshkar — the Nightingale of India for us. Nor were we the hit duo of Kalyanji-Anandji. We were all newcomers, bonding as peers who love music.

Lata Mangeshkar with Jawaharlal Nehru