Pune: Sawani Shende recited a fabulous Ragamala composed by Pandit Bholanath Bhatt. It comprised a journey through 18 ragas, fleetingly touching each raga’s essence. A ragamala in vocal music also ...

To ears accustomed to the harmonic progressions of Western classical music, the ragas and talas of the Indian subcontinent can sound exotic indeed. A Western listener’s first reaction to Indian music ...

Hindustani classical music, one of India’s oldest and most refined art forms, follows a unique and deeply spiritual principle known as the Samay Raga System—the association of specific ragas with ...

BANASHANKARI: Rare ragas from the melakarta will be revived on Sunday through a rendition of Purandaradasa kritis. Renowned Karnatak musician R K Padmanabha has, over the past few months, set ...

T he heart and soul of Indian classical music is the raga, comprising the variants of the seven swaras, and derived from the 72 Melakartha or parent seven note scales, thus enabling composers and ...

Dilip Kumar learnt to play the sitar for his 1960 song Madhuban mein Radhika naache from his film Kohinoor, Shabana Azmi took lessons from a Carnatic singer to learn the basic ragas for her film, ...

Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan’s Washington ...

Even ragas that seem to have less scope for expansion take on a different and fascinating form, if the artiste happens to be a musical genius. Sangita Kalanidhi N. Ravikiran for instance. Two ragas, ...