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Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain has left behind such a huge legacy with his “eternally dancing fingers” that his music is ...

How often have you come across a musician from Kolkata playing rudraveena? Or tar shehnai or even sarinda? In fact, if we may ...

The influence of jazz and Latin music on Indian music is a fascinating example of cross-cultural synergy, blending diverse ...

Renowned Sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee, a torchbearer of Indian classical music, has brought the magic of the sitar to life in the latest season of Bandish ...

The year 1994 saw a surge of controversial Bollywood songs ... because the lyrics of some songs were blatantly inappropriate. These weren’t works of established music directors like Laxmikant ...

Securing the GI tag will not only provide formal recognition but also present Mandar as a unique cultural and intellectual property of India on the global stage ...

His collaborators included John McLaughlin, Béla Fleck, Ravi Shankar, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Grateful ...

The evening commenced with 'Aalo', a unique collage of the ragas, Bhatiyar and Marwa, set to surfaktaal and sooltaal, ...

Never one to follow rigid ideas of music, the tabla maestro collaborated with Carnatic percussionists, putting unremembered ...

How great was Zakir Hussain? The fact that the tabla maestro has been taken from our midst at the fag end of the year in ...

During his tour in India, actor-musician Diljit Dosanjh was asked by a few states to not sing songs that have reference to ...