With "Morning Raga," regional Indian cinema again proves willing to dabble outside the restrictive formulas of its Bollywood big brother. Helmer-/scripter Mahesh Dattani shuttles back and forth ...

In Indian classical music, a raga is a framework for improvisation within a specific set of melodies and motifs. Charu Suri, the first Indian-born jazz composer to play their own compositions at ...

A violinist and a vocal singer, their children; a businessman, his wife and their daughter accidentally meet on a bridge spanning the banks of the Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh, India. Fast forward ...

From Finding the Raga, which was published last month by New York Review Books. Every raga in North Indian music has a time, and sometimes a season, of performance: it can’t, or shouldn’t, be ...

1- Bob’s alert 2-Morning Raga 3- Moak’s shop 4- Hamsadhwani 5- No war 6- Hope 7- Loading… 8- Macci 36 9- Remember “Morning Raga” is a flow of energy, the urge to begin making music again with others ...

A Bollywood film with a difference. Shabana Azmi delivers a powerhouse performance as a retired classical singer who overcomes a past tragedy with the help of two young musicians. A luminous tale ...