He single-handedly elevated a 100-string instrument little known outside Kashmir into a prominent component of Hindustani classical music. By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, an ...

The UK-based classical musician and harmonium player Sadakat Aman Khan, was born into a family in Malda where Hindustani classical music was not merely practise ...

'He played sarangi like no other', 'a peaceful and wonderful musician' or the one who gave up the fame and glory of Hindi film industry for the sheer love of classical music is how eminent ...

Hindustani classical music is unthinkable without the tabla and its varying tempo of beats. In the devotional music of all three major religions (Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism) as well as Sufi and ...

Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya occupies a rare space in global music history. He is the first Indian artist inducted into the ...

PASADENA, Calif. — At an autumn concert in Southern California, instrumentalist and vocalist Sheela Bringi carefully adjusted the strings of her harp before dedicating the opening invocation to ...

On the reading list this week is a detective story set in the Mughal era, a chronicle of the Urdu newspaper Pratap and its Hindi counterpart, Vir Pratap, and a book that discusses the melodic and ...