In a tragic incident, pakhawaj player Dinesh Prasad suffered a suspected cardiac arrest while performing on stage at the Sanatkada Lucknow Festival here on Monday. All attempts to revive him failed ...

HIS name bears the title of a classical dance form. Pt Bhawani Shankar Kathak, is called so because of his father Pandit Babulalji who was a legendary kathak dancer. He trained dancers like Sandhya ...

For the first time in the city Pakhawaj Parva, a three-day festival of the instrument will take plce and have 25 renowned artists regaling city audience Dhrupad Sansthan from Bhopal in association ...

Pandit Bhawani Shankar was a renowned 'pakhawaj' player and one of the best we saw in the field of Indian classical music. He passed away on Saturday due to cardiac arrest... Pandit Bhavani Shankar ...

Previous editions of this column have referred to the pakhawaj, a barrel-shaped horizontal twin-faced drum that is used to accompany dhrupad-dhamaar performances and certain kinds of instrumental ...

With the predominance of the tabla as an instrument of percussion in North India, the pakhawaj, or a version of it, has come to be associated as a percussion instrument played primarily in the South.

Music transcended words as the power of classical instruments took over. In the ongoing celebration of the Jashn-e-Khusro festival at Kuch Khaas (KK), an ensemble of tabla, pakhawaj and sitar players ...

Ujjian (Madhya Pradesh): Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple Management Committee organised the 18th Akhil Bhartiya Shravan Mahotsav 2023, the ninth Saturday of Shiv Sambhavam, on September 9. The first ...

As droplets of water fall from the sky, the soothing music emanating from the pakhawaj being played by Dr Anil Chaudhury — in the green environs of his house garden in central Delhi — touch the soul.

Pandit Dal Chand Sharma is one of the finest exponents of pakhawaj as a soloist as well as an accompanying artiste. Trained under gurus like Pandit Totaram Sharma, Pandit Murlidhar Sharma and Pandit ...

LUCKNOW: In a shocking incident, well-known Pakhawaj player and UP Sangeet Natak Akademi (UPSNA) awardee Dinesh Prasad, 67, collapsed on stage during his performance at the Sanatkada Festival in ...

Pandit Bhavani Shankar, renowned as the Pakhawaj maestro, passed away yesterday (December 30). His family has officially confirmed the news and notified that his 'rasam kriya' (Hindu rituals after ...