After the celebrated Padma Bhushan Sharan Rani there have not been any outstanding women sarod players. It’s a difficult instrument to master and associated with vigour and a certain robustness. That ...

His popularity as a tabla player may be due, in large measure, to the fact that he was one of those rare musicians who was able to totally engage the mind of his listener with what he was playing. — ...

Fine-tuning of tradition Well-known sarod player Chandrima Majumdar is striving to keep the legacy of her gharana alive through a combination of concerts and courses on the stringed instrument.

Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

After the celebrated Padma Bhushan Sharan Rani there have not been any outstanding women sarod players. It’s a difficult instrument to master and associated with vigour and a certain robustness. That ...