Music for Marathwada

Alma and Alla Rakha, parents of one-year-old child Sadiq, are yet to come out of shock after the incident in which a sweeper had chopped off the child's finger at a government hospital in Barmer.

By the late Sixties, tabla maestro Alla Rakha knew his precocious son Zakir Hussain needed to experience the world beyond Indian shores, and made an odd move: dispatching the 18-year-old prodigy to the Grateful Dead's ranch in Novato, California.

The tabla maestro has built his own sandcastle with music and beats. And he is happy living there Hi, I am Zakir.If there is one face that became visual shorthand for Indian classical music, it is that of the Ustad. Zakir Hussain is arguably the ...

Eight years after Pandit Ravi Shankar found his two dear sitars broken on an Air France flight en route from Istanbul, Indian musicians continue to suffer on the account of callous airlines and insensitive airport staff across the world. Last week, ...

What do you usually do when you see garbage strewn across the streets? You hold your breath and move away as quickly as you can, right? Ace percussionist Taufiq Qureshi looks at trash differently. He seeks potential percussion instruments in ...

Tabla sensation Fazal Qureshi gets talking about his latest album Ley Lines and the rich lineage he has R Prashanth Vidyasagar Tweet Mail this page Translate this page Rate me.... " class="fb_share_button" onclick="return fbs_click()" ...

Fashion is an art that does not limit itself to clothes. "Folk Forward", the preview show of "Rutbaa 2" held at Gurgaon, proved to be an interesting blend of luxurious fashion and soulful Sufi music. "Rutbaa 2" , which is making a comeback after its ...

Titles hurt. Their absence hurts even more. The compulsion to write world-renowned tabla maestro Anuradha Pal's name without the celebratory prefix Ustad or Pandit or Vidwan (in the Carnatic tradition) is no editorial fallacy. This norm—of ...

Three generations of the Barot family speak about inheriting good music and bad tempers When Ranjit was nine, my mother's side of the family decided that he should become a doctor," remembers 94 year-old Sitara Devi, who Rabindranath Tagore ...