The 17th-century Ragamala painting of Darbari Kanada beautifully captured the grandeur of the raag. On the painting was inscribed a Sanskrit shloka from the ancient treatise Sangeet Darpan that ...

Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan said when his father Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan was honoured with the Padma Bhushan award in 1960, he had asked the then President Dr Rajendra Prasad to protect the sanctity of ...

The musicians of yore were simpletons who put their music before themselves. Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan once asked then president Rajendra Prasad to pass a resolution in parliament that "everyone should ...

Mukesh was most emotionally bonded to this tune, so all we will do is look at his songs engaging with this raag in films. In his fascinating book, Windows To The Soul: And Other Essays on Music, Manek ...

This happened many years ago, in Gwalior.Some people came to the house which is now Sarod Ghar, the museum of Indian instruments. KOLKATA: This happened many years ago, in Gwalior. Some people came to ...

Pardesiya featuring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor star Param Sundari is enchanting, reminiscent of morning dew on a mountain peak. The soothing nature of this romantic melody feels almost ...

Bilawal, a raag prescribed for the morning according to the Hindustani music raag-time theory, has a vakra chalan or crooked or zigzag movement of notes rather than the latter appearing in a ...

Pardesiya from Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor starrer Param Sundari is blissful, like fresh dew settling on a mountain. There's a certain calmness about the romantic track that seems to be ...

The last major live music festival before India went into lockdown again was held in Kolkata in the first week of April. Held over three evenings, the festival only featured sarod solos, and was ...

LUCKNOW: Feeling dull? Listen to music and feel the relief. No wonder mythical characters like Goddess Saraswati holds a Veena and Lord Krishna used to hypnotise ‘gopis’ (his girlfriends) through the ...