The plain white tag around the neck of the tanpura says simply: 1890, Miraj, Ustad Abdul Karim Khan. Around it,...
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Malini Nair is a writer and senior editor based in New Delhi. She is a Kalpalata Fellow for Classical Music Writings for 2022.
The sour golugu berries/And shark fish and mullet/When I eat the fish you appear in my dreams/My dark and handsome...
A tiny one-bedroom flat tucked into a quieter lane of Chennai’s Mandavelli neighbourhood is something of a pilgrimage destination for...
It hosts India’s oldest classical music festival, the Harballabh Sangeet Sammelan, and is home to at least two gharanas of...
Rithvik Raja, among the younger stars of the Carnatic vocal scene, has an astonishing estimate to share. Of the around...
N Rajam is surprised that you see a quartet of women violinists from across three generations of a family as...
Nearly every male kathak dancer in the world is connected to this family of performers in Karol Bagh
Gaon Badabar, Post Office Sujangarh, Churu. Till about a century ago that used to be the Thar address of the...
The word wild pops up often in colonial descriptions of the tappa, a dazzlingly fast-paced, quirky music form that revels...
Ajab duniya, jaariya kahan hai?/Jaan paryo na maika aage ke paachhe re, Baithe jyo guni yeh hain, poochhat inaso mein/...
If music were charted on a gender spectrum, popular theory has it that the dhrupad would fall on the masculine...
“The melodic character of Indian music and the harmonic character of Western music are like oil and water. They will...