For most Westerners, Indian classical music begins with the sitar and ends with the tabla. More aware listeners may also be familiar with the lute-like sarod and the double-reed shenai. But few are ...

When Grammy-winning Indian flautist Rakesh Chaurasia lifts his bansuri, the bamboo flute supposedly played by the deity Krishna, something more than music fills the air. It’s memory, meditation and an ...

In cultures across the world, it is that one piece of reed that causes man’s innermost realm to transcend the mundane, be it the Romanian Pan Flute, the Armenian Duduk, the Irish Tin Whistle, the ...

Despite his busy schedule as a jazz saxophonist and instructor in the U.S., Carl Clements has always “loved visiting Mumbai”, more so for his one-on-one bansuri lessons from Nityanand Haldipur, who ...

KOCHI: When rag behag began to flow from the bansuri of Hariprasad Chaurasia, the greatest living exponent of bansuri recital, audience lost themselves in the heavenly music pouring from the magical ...

Even on the toughest township streets of South Africa, one could always hear a lively beat and a soulful song. Under apartheid, even music was segregated. That's partly how Deepak Ram — who was raised ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

During the global outreach campaign on Operation Sindoor, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Bansuri Swaraj, part of the high-level all-party delegation led by Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Eknath Shinde, ...