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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“He did not play to dazzle, but to convey and build on the central thesis of a raag”, is how musician Arnab Chakrabarty recalled his teacher, Kalyan Kumar Mukherjea, a master of the sarod who died in ...

Lucknow: Every artist should read Shrilal Shukla's Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel, ‘Raag Darbari', said actors Pankaj Tripathi and Ashok Pathak, as they read excerpts from the classic novel ...

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 ...

Asserting that he feels a sense of responsibility after his Padma Shri, music composer Adnan Sami on Tuesday said musicians shouldn't comment on politics just as politicians shouldn't be asked to ...