“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...
The BBC Proms music festival 2023 had many interesting highlights. Prom 69a featured the BBC Singers, who will be a century old next year. But earlier this year, the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) controversially decided to disband the choir steeped in music history as part of its “new strategy” for...
It hosts India’s oldest classical music festival, the Harballabh Sangeet Sammelan, and is home to at least two gharanas of...
If music were charted on a gender spectrum, popular theory has it that the dhrupad would fall on the masculine...
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...