Newsletters
Gift Membership
Become a member
Subscribe
Get app
Sign in
Take Scroll With You
Download the app to read our award-winning journalism on the go and stay up-to-date with our notifications.
Get the app
ANDROID
iOS
Gift Membership
Home
Common Ground
The India Fix
Eco India
The Latest
The Reel
Magazine
Video
Trending
Cash transfers, caste calculus: What was behind the Mahayuti’s sweep in Maharashtra?
‘The Shudra Rebellion’: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd studies the vital role of oppressed castes in India
How an Indian monk contributed to the understanding of Buddhism in China
Start the week with a film: Why ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’ is all the rage
A new book shows why the super-rich in India must strive to alleviate poverty and reduce inequality
Interview: ‘In Manipur, rational voices on both sides are being silenced’
Did Indian culture recognise an independent field of study called philosophy?
Upamanyu Chatterjee’s ‘Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life’ wins the JCB Prize for Literature
The Indian media is acting like a Hindutva ally in its coverage of the violence in Canada
Why the imagined opposition between academic and public historians needs to be questioned
Gulzar on his daughter Meghna: ‘A piece of sun mingles in my blood, day and night’
The Carnatic world is dominated by vocalists. How can instrumentalists find larger audiences?
Sections
Politics
Culture
India
World
Film and TV
Music
Books and Ideas
Business and Economy
Science and Technology
In Pictures
Announcements
Bookshop
The Field
Pulse
Elections 2024
Hindustani music
Listen: Slow compositions set to Dadra show the versatility of the taal
Aneesh Pradhan
· Aug 11, 2018 · 06:00 am
Listen: Maestros add colour to the Dadra taal through creative variations
Aneesh Pradhan
· Jul 28, 2018 · 06:00 am
Listen as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Begum Akhtar sway you to the rhythms of Dadra taal
Aneesh Pradhan
· Jul 21, 2018 · 05:42 pm
Listen: Latafat Hussein Khan, Khadim Hussein Khan, KG Ginde perform rare varieties of raag Saarang
Aneesh Pradhan
· Jul 07, 2018 · 07:00 am
Listen: Vocal and instrumental renditions of the raag Badhans Saarang
Aneesh Pradhan
· Jun 30, 2018 · 12:00 pm
Reliving Gandharva Mahavidyalaya’s glory days with a duet by Narayanrao Vyas, Vinayakrao Patwardhan
Aneesh Pradhan
· May 05, 2018 · 06:00 am
Listen: Dhuns set to the Kaharvaa taal come alive in these sitar and shehnai recitals
Aneesh Pradhan
· Apr 28, 2018 · 06:00 am
A young YouTuber is teaching thousands of Indians how to listen to classical music
Archana Nathan
· Apr 20, 2018 · 11:30 am
Listen: Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Jagdish Prasad and Shobha Gurtu perform thumris set to Kaharvaa taal
Aneesh Pradhan
· Apr 07, 2018 · 06:00 am
Photos: Treatises on Hindustani music from Akbar’s reign that shaped music theory for centuries
Katherine Butler Schofield
· Mar 31, 2018 · 08:30 pm
Listen: Rajasthani folk singers present their take on the Kaharvaa taal
Aneesh Pradhan
· Mar 24, 2018 · 07:00 am
Listen: The challenging raag Bilawal comes alive in these two sarod recitals
Aneesh Pradhan
· Feb 03, 2018 · 07:00 am
Listen: Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shankar present their interpretations of raag Bilawal
Aneesh Pradhan
· Jan 27, 2018 · 07:00 am
For Brahmins, by Brahmins: How (and why) Carnatic music became such an elite preoccupation
Kamala Ganesh
· Jan 20, 2018 · 11:30 am
Listen: A classic composition in raag Bilawal – interpreted three ways
Aneesh Pradhan
· Jan 20, 2018 · 06:00 am
Watch: Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha teach the basics of playing sitar and tabla
Aneesh Pradhan
· Jan 13, 2018 · 06:45 am
The immeasurable contribution of Abdul Karim Khan to the Kirana gharana
K D Dixit
· Oct 22, 2017 · 11:30 am
Listen: Renditions of raag Ram Gauri and Kapar Gauri that you’ll rarely hear in concert
Aneesh Pradhan
· Oct 07, 2017 · 06:00 am
How the ghazal lost its rigidity to become a popular expression of love and longing
Ashok Ranade
· Oct 01, 2017 · 11:30 am
A detailed exposition of Lalita Gauri by the inimitable Kesarbai Kerkar
Aneesh Pradhan
· Sep 30, 2017 · 06:00 am
Previous
Next
