Over the past years there has been an increasing interest in tabla, an instrument with a long history, renowned performers such as Said Al Artist and many young people who learn to play it His whole ...

A tabla player and multi-percussionist, Anuradha Pal is a Mumbai-based musician trained by the late Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain. Pal went on to start two fusion bands; Stree Shakti is an ...

In order to spread the benefits of Tabla not only as music but as therapy also, a Tabla player from a region close to Kolkata has started a tabla Academy. In order to spread the benefits of Tabla not ...

There is something inherently human about telling a story. In his magnum opus, historian Yuval Noah Harari observed that “Homo Sapiens is a storytelling animal that thinks in stories rather than ...

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 ...

At dusk, the narrow lanes of Dal Mandi in downtown Varanasi spring to life. Rows of shops in the northern Indian city offer colourful wares, from the famous Banarasi silk saris, costume jewellery and ...

With the predominance of the tabla as an instrument of percussion in North India, the pakhawaj, or a version of it, has come to be associated as a percussion instrument played primarily in the South.