It hosts India’s oldest classical music festival, the Harballabh Sangeet Sammelan, and is home to at least two gharanas of...
The BBC Proms music festival 2023 had many interesting highlights. Prom 69a featured the BBC Singers, who will be a...
Ajab duniya, jaariya kahan hai?/Jaan paryo na maika aage ke paachhe re, Baithe jyo guni yeh hain, poochhat inaso mein/ Batayide kahan, ye aage ke paachhe re. Where is this strange world headed? I can’t fathom, it is moving ahead or going back in time? I see the wise men...
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...
What is Indian classical music? A typical answer will mention ragas, talas, sitars, tablas, and now konnakol: as the most clearly heard components, they have become musical shorthand for India. However, like all labels, it carries the seeds of its own destruction – and I will now attempt to find them,...