Pancham Nishad’s three-day ‘Sarang Malhar’ festival brings young classical maestros together to explore the deep connections and contrasts between two timeless ragas Sarang and Malhar are two ragas ...

In the third episode of our series on Hindustani raags that use two varieties (komal and shuddha, or shuddha and teevra) of the same swara in chromatic succession, we move to Shuddha Sarang, a raag ...

Thumri singer Dhanashree Pandit Rai believes that one can find a raag even in Bollywood songs. In a freewheeling chat, she aims to break all myths surrounding Indian classical music . Trained under ...

The musicality of the final evening was amplified by Raghunandan Panshikar, who brought out the quintessential beauty of Raga Shudh Sarang with Bharat Kamat on the tabla and Gourab Chatterjee on the h ...

Nothing can warm the soul like calm, seamless swaras on cold winter nights. So it was at the 43rd year annual sangeet sammelan held in Chandigarh recently. Presented by the Indian National Theatre ...

Colonialism impacted Indian music in myriad ways. One of the more obvious influences of Western music was evident in the manner that many princely states put together bands and orchestras. Art or ...