Hindustani Music
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Listen: How different tabla players colour the rhythmic canvas their own way playing the same taal
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: Begum Akhtar and the bonhomie and respect enjoyed by her accompanists
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: How tabla players are able to enter into unrehearsed dialogue with featured soloists
Aneesh Pradhan
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Interview: At 91, sarod maestro Rajeev Taranath has not stopped pursuing musical excellence
P Satya
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Listen: Is PR activity in Hindustani music really a new phenomenon?
Aneesh Pradhan
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‘I’m a small man but my music is huge’: Wasifuddin Dagar on the AR Rahman plagiarism row
Malini Nair
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Why is Punjab, a land of sublime classical music, known only for bhangra?
Malini Nair
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Kalyan Mukherjea, the master sarod player with a mathematician’s day job, as remembered by a student
Sumana Ramanan
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Listen: Songs from the film ‘Nagad Narayan’ composed by Hindustani violinist Shridhar Parsekar
Aneesh Pradhan
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Meet the Hindustani violinist who has spawned a rare all-women classical musical lineage
Malini Nair
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Listen: Seven film songs composed by tabla maestro Alla Rakha
Aneesh Pradhan
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What makes Venkatesh Kumar a rock star among Hindustani vocalists? A documentary has some answers
Malini Nair
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How are freedom and democracy reflected in Hindustani music practice? A tabla maestro’s reflections
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: Strolling past the chowk in Mumbai named after sitar maestro Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: The music of Hariprasad Chaurasia and the story of the Vrindaban Gurukul he set up
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: The vocals of CR Vyas, who lends his name to a Chembur street
Aneesh Pradhan
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‘An instrument with no potential’: How Shivkumar Sharma went on to master the santoor
Susheela Misra
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Listen: Music and memories from the storied halls of the NCPA, which graces a corner of South Mumbai
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: The music of pathbreaking bansuri player Pannalal Ghosh, after whom a Malad street is named
Aneesh Pradhan
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Is thumri louche or evolved? 100 years on, a debate around the classical form still rages
Malini Nair