Imagine a museum of sound where some Carnatic melodies in ragas once popular lie tucked away, seldom heard. Music researcher ...

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not seem ...

Cricket test matches were once timeless. Then came timed tests and now we play international games within about four hours. Carnatic music saw similar trends in the shrinkage of time. However, not ...

The 18th century is considered as the golden age of Carnatic music. During this time lived three great composers/ musicians who were later celebrated as the musical trinity: Shyama Shastri, Tyagaraja ...

“It’s one of the biggest cultural extravaganzas in the whole world. People from the US, Australia, Japan, Singapore... so many different countries have started coming. It’s become bigger year after ...

It's time for a gig where the north meets the south again. Two maestros who have been praised by critics and their peers alike will liven up the stage with monsoon-based ragas. Ustad Rashid Khan, the ...

Born into a family that breathes Carnatic music, the melodious cadences of ragas seeped into USA-based Indian-American composer Shanker Krishnan’s system quite early in life. The legendary vocalist ...

After the concert in Delhi in July 2025, Carnatic vocalists Ranjani Gayatri stayed back for photos and conversations with audience members who requested them. (Images: Chanpreet Khurana) There are no ...

For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...