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 ...

Meet Raju, a master craftsman from Thrissur, and explore a version of mridangam and tabla making that blends centuries-old ...

The tabla is one of the most recognized and influential percussion instruments in Indian classical music. Known for its complex rhythms and intricate techniques, the tabla plays a central role in both ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tabla Maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain reportedly died at a hospital in San Francisco, California aged 73. A child prodigy, Hussain started playing Tabla at the age of 3 and began touring when he was just ...

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 ...

Rhythm is claimed to be the forerunner of music about which men learnt during the early days of their sociological and cultural evolution. Before they discovered sur (musical notes) or invented saaz ...