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Pushkar has a link with sufism, spirituality and music. The music experience is carefully curated at the Sacred Pushkar that includes Carnatic music, Western music, Sufi, and Bhakti music among others.

Sacred Pushkar: A festival that celebrates music

Pushkar, the tiny township that does not really qualify to even be called a town has an ancient link with spirituality...

8 Oct 2018 12:06 AM IST

Rajam playing the violin with her family members

'Every school should have compulsory classical music'

Dr N. Rajam, Padma Bhushan and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow rightly regarded as the face of the violin in North India,...

24 Sept 2018 1:06 AM IST

Ustad Nishat Khan

Sitar recital celebrates the magic of Malhars

Starting with Raga Mian ki Malhar, the main Malhar modified by Mian Tansen himself, the maestro leisurely slowly exposed...

17 Sept 2018 6:58 AM IST

Pandit Gokulotsav Maharaj

Effect of British rule destroyed our pride in our culture

An erudite scholar, prolific composer of music, Ragas as well as compositions, the maestro occupies a unique position in...

10 Sept 2018 12:08 AM IST

Padma Shri Chitra Visweswaran

Meera: The soul divine is a fantastic presentation

Meera, the 14th century mystic Krishna bhaktâ€ conjures up an image of the desert of North India.

3 Sept 2018 1:03 AM IST

Ustad Vilayat Khan (Photo: Shobha Deepak Singh)

Remembering 'Aftab e Sitar' Ustad Vilayat Khan

Every now and then, a musician of such outstanding ability and influence is born that his music is a force to contend...

27 Aug 2018 12:23 AM IST

Ustad Nishat Khan (Photo: Tanveer Farouqui)

The music of the monsoons: The Malhars

Megh is one of the six primordial Ragas in the Northern classical music tradition.

20 Aug 2018 12:21 AM IST

Vidushi Shruti Sadolikar. (Photo: Bharat Tiwari)

Music plays a part in nation-building

The main patriotic fervor was during the British period in India, when music played a huge part in rousing national...

13 Aug 2018 12:15 AM IST

Durjoy Bhaumik at a performance

3-day classical music festival at Gaiety Theatre

All the concerts will start at 5.30 pm; thus giving the largely pedestrian audience ease of reaching home in good time.

7 Aug 2018 12:47 AM IST

Pandit Vidur Mallik

Pt Vidur Mallik revived an interest in Haveli sangeet

Born in 1935 in Darbhanga, he spent the last 22 years of his life in Vrindavan from 1980 onwards where he passed away in...

6 Aug 2018 1:11 AM IST

Akhilesh Gundecha and Tejendra Mazumdar

Experimental' concert a thundering success

The packed hall needed extra seats to accommodate the thronging surge of expectant, mostly young listeners.

30 July 2018 12:58 AM IST

Budhadev Dasgupta. (Photo: Rakesh Sinha)

Musical tribute to guru, with love

The evening will start with a presentation of rare compositions, in the same Raga, by different generations of Ustads.

23 July 2018 12:17 AM IST