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classical music

Video: Watch this ‘People x Nainowale Ne’ mashup with a classical twist by two sisters

Scroll Staff
· May 27, 2023 · 12:05 pm
In Kumar Gandharva’s bandishes, hear the music of the common man

Malini Nair
· Apr 08, 2023 · 11:30 am
Opinion: To truly democratise Indian art and culture, the ‘classical’ must be declared dead

Brahma Prakash
· Mar 19, 2023 · 09:00 am
Watch: Tabla players cover Selena Gomez and Rema’s hit song ‘Calm Down’

Scroll Staff
· Jan 03, 2023 · 12:12 pm
Watch: Singer reimagines Justin Bieber’s Grammy-nominated song ‘Peaches’ in Carnatic style

Scroll Staff
· Dec 22, 2022 · 10:02 am
Watch: Indore sisters play beautiful Raga Todi duet on the santoor and the sitar

Scroll Staff
· Dec 19, 2022 · 12:24 pm
Neither embraced at concerts nor at weddings, the shehnai is fighting for survival

Malini Nair
· Sep 06, 2022 · 11:30 am
An Ambedkarite is interweaving Buddha’s teachings with dhrupad in a leap of artistic faith

Malini Nair
· Mar 26, 2022 · 11:30 am
How a music form inspired by the songs of camel drivers of Punjab-Sindh became popular in Bengal

Malini Nair
· Jan 08, 2022 · 11:30 am
What happens when a classical musician gets off the concert stage to perform at a site of activism?

Malini Nair
· Dec 16, 2021 · 11:30 am
Meet the women who have made the cello an ‘Indian instrument’

Malini Nair
· Nov 13, 2021 · 11:30 am
Why is ‘The Disciple’ being likened to ‘Pather Panchali’ – and not in a good way?

Malini Nair
· Jul 28, 2021 · 07:30 am
‘Is this judgement intrinsically problematic?’ TM Krishna on Karnatik music versus Hindustani music

TM Krishna
· Jun 07, 2021 · 08:30 am
Listening to the world: Amit Chaudhuri’s book argues that classical Hindustani music is modernist

Ashok Vajpeyi
· Apr 24, 2021 · 08:30 am
On his 250th birth anniversary, remembering Beethoven the astute businessman

Luis Dias
· Dec 16, 2020 · 11:30 am
Watch: A YouTuber faces social media backlash after appearing to mock Indian classical music

Scroll Staff
· Aug 10, 2020 · 04:41 pm
Western India’s Ragamala paintings blend music and art into a single frame

Simran Agarwal, Sahapedia
· Apr 18, 2020 · 02:30 pm
Listen: Ten Indian classical music performances by writer Amit Chaudhuri from 1989 to 2002

Amit Chaudhuri
· Apr 11, 2020 · 01:14 pm
Coronavirus: This piece of classical music urging people to ‘not spread the disease’ is a social hit

Scroll Staff
· Mar 23, 2020 · 08:30 am
Listen: Buddhadev Dasgupta, Girija Devi and others demonstrate Bhairavi’s flexibility

Aneesh Pradhan
· Jan 18, 2020 · 08:00 am