Padma Bhushan Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty highlights the distinctions between North and South Indian music, noting the devotional focus of Carnatic compositions versus the everyday themes in Hindustani ...

Mahesh Kale ’s Infusion arrived in Pune as an expansive musical conversation, where Hindustani classical roots met global sounds without compromise. A.

Best I can tell—by roaming the vaguely definitive ether known as cyberspace—the term “jugalbandhi” means “entwined twins” and refers to a musical duet, which makes perfect sense for this concert: a ...

Vocalist Mahesh Kale's recent viral performance has sparked interest in raga-inspired Bollywood music. He is now set to ...

A National Award–winning hindustani classical vocalist known for carrying tradition into contemporary spaces, Mahesh Kale has ...

Kishori Amonkar, a legendary performer of Indian classical music, died in her apartment in Mumbai on the night of April 3 after a brief illness. She was 84. Amonkar was a notable vocalist of the ...

Artist Arushi Jain’s upcoming album offers something that music fans may not have heard before. The Indian American engineer-turned-musician/vocalist blends modular synths and electronic music with ...

The images carried on postage stamps are central in producing, projecting and experiencing the national community. From Mirabai of the Bhakti tradition to Hindi film playback singers and paintings of ...

Five contestants reached the semi-finals of the Indian music talent show, Dil Hai Hindustani. One of them was not Indian, however. Michał Rudaś, an artist from Poland, stood his ground throughout the ...

Hindustani classical vocalist Ronkini Gupta sings Ae Ri Aali Piya Bin, a Raag Yaman bandish, and then explains it to the audience of about 40 gathered in an elegant living room in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj.

Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected ...

Exposed to rock in his earlier years working with legends such as George Harrison on his “Living in the Material World” album, Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain began dreaming of becoming a rock ...