After the celebrated Padma Bhushan Sharan Rani there have not been any outstanding women sarod players. It’s a difficult instrument to master and associated with vigour and a certain robustness. That ...

His popularity as a tabla player may be due, in large measure, to the fact that he was one of those rare musicians who was able to totally engage the mind of his listener with what he was playing. — ...

Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

Fine-tuning of tradition Well-known sarod player Chandrima Majumdar is striving to keep the legacy of her gharana alive through a combination of concerts and courses on the stringed instrument. Aruna ...

Mumbai, Jan. 15: The audience was enthralled as the strains of Raag Khamaaj wafted through the packed auditorium, but for Ustad Amjad Ali Khan the sound was not quite the same. The maestro, whose ...