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  • Listen: Strolling past the chowk in Mumbai named after sitar maestro Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan

    Listen: Strolling past the chowk in Mumbai named after sitar maestro Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Jul 16, 2022 · 07:30 am
  • ‘Mahasena’: The first part of Kala Krishnan’s Murugan trilogy refuses to be a tidy retelling

    ‘Mahasena’: The first part of Kala Krishnan’s Murugan trilogy refuses to be a tidy retelling

    Priya Balasubramanian
    · Feb 26, 2022 · 05:30 pm
  • Listen: Vilayat Khan plays raag Bilaskhani Todi on the sitar and the surbahar

    Listen: Vilayat Khan plays raag Bilaskhani Todi on the sitar and the surbahar

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Mar 21, 2020 · 08:30 am
  • Listen: Manhar Barve plays the ghungrutarang and other unusual instruments

    Listen: Manhar Barve plays the ghungrutarang and other unusual instruments

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Mar 14, 2020 · 08:00 am
  • Listen: Rudra veena and vocal performances by Kirana gharana maestro Abdul Karim Khan

    Listen: Rudra veena and vocal performances by Kirana gharana maestro Abdul Karim Khan

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Feb 22, 2020 · 07:00 am
  • Listen: Santoor maestro Shivkumar Sharma and others perform instrumental versions of raag Bhairavi

    Listen: Santoor maestro Shivkumar Sharma and others perform instrumental versions of raag Bhairavi

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Feb 01, 2020 · 08:00 am
  • Listen: Kesarbai Kerkar, Pannalal Ghosh and others who performed at a legendary Mumbai event in 1944

    Listen: Kesarbai Kerkar, Pannalal Ghosh and others who performed at a legendary Mumbai event in 1944

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Oct 19, 2019 · 08:00 am
  • Watch: This mash-up of ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Urvasi’ on the veena will have you grooving

    Watch: This mash-up of ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Urvasi’ on the veena will have you grooving

    Scroll Staff
    · Jul 25, 2019 · 08:10 am
  • Watch: A Bengali singer taunts ‘didi’ about returning the ‘cut money’ her party members took

    Watch: A Bengali singer taunts ‘didi’ about returning the ‘cut money’ her party members took

    Scroll Staff
    · Jun 24, 2019 · 10:00 am
  • ‘He was ahead of his time’: Fazal Qureshi on the genius of his father, tabla maestro Ustad Allarakha

    ‘He was ahead of his time’: Fazal Qureshi on the genius of his father, tabla maestro Ustad Allarakha

    Nasreen Munni Kabir
    · Jan 22, 2019 · 12:05 pm
  • Listen: Explore Chautaal through these performances by Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and Abhay Narayan Mallick

    Listen: Explore Chautaal through these performances by Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and Abhay Narayan Mallick

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Dec 08, 2018 · 06:00 am
  • Listen: Members of the Dagar family perform the Tivra taal

    Listen: Members of the Dagar family perform the Tivra taal

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Nov 03, 2018 · 06:00 am
  • Listen: Vocal and instrumental renditions of the raag Badhans Saarang

    Listen: Vocal and instrumental renditions of the raag Badhans Saarang

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Jun 30, 2018 · 12:00 pm
  • Listen: Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shankar present their interpretations of raag Bilawal

    Listen: Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shankar present their interpretations of raag Bilawal

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Jan 27, 2018 · 07:00 am
  • Ulhas Bapat (1950-2018), a multi-faceted musician who took the santoor and made it his own

    Ulhas Bapat (1950-2018), a multi-faceted musician who took the santoor and made it his own

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Jan 06, 2018 · 06:00 am
  • Meet the characters who appear in both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (and find out why)

    Meet the characters who appear in both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (and find out why)

    Devdutt Pattanaik
    · May 27, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Listen: Maestros create dialogues with instruments and challenge each other through taarparans

    Listen: Maestros create dialogues with instruments and challenge each other through taarparans

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · May 27, 2017 · 05:00 am
  • Shamsuddin Faridi Desai's virtuosity is on display as he performs Raag Darbari on the rudra veena

    Shamsuddin Faridi Desai's virtuosity is on display as he performs Raag Darbari on the rudra veena

    Aneesh Pradhan
    · Jan 14, 2017 · 07:45 am
  • With despair and disquiet (and some healing) from Assam, these stories marry fact to fiction

    With despair and disquiet (and some healing) from Assam, these stories marry fact to fiction

    Neha Bhatt
    · Jan 07, 2017 · 05:30 pm
  • Strings attached: Masters of the sarod, from 1820 to the present

    Strings attached: Masters of the sarod, from 1820 to the present

    Arnab Chakrabarty
    · Nov 10, 2016 · 11:30 am
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