Don’t pelt me with pebbles, they hurt /My mother-in-law and sister-in-law may hear us/ Come running — Raga Todi There is a fascinating dichotomy about the grand universe of the khayal – a music so ...
Amit Chaudhuri's new book is an ode to Hindustani classical music.(Mint) Amit Chaudhuri’s new book, Finding The Raga, is an ode to the khayal, a genre of classical music that traces its provenance to ...
Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar, presented khayal at its best at the end of a programme to celebrate the 90 years of The Calcutta School of Music at the G.D. Birla Sabhagar last Monday. The evening opened with ...
Amit Chaudhuri’s teenage discovery of the raga transformed his understanding of music, connecting it to the rhythms of life and challenging Western artistic conventions. While most good books could ...
In Omkarnath Havaldar’s case it can be safely said music is genetic. It’s not always so, it has escaped the progeny of legends too. The young Hindustani musician trained by his father -- the renowned ...
The renowned novelist explores the thrill of improvisation in a delightful, insightful book that is part singing diary, part memoir and part musical history For decades now, the novelist Amit ...
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 ...
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