Remembering Batuk Diwanji, a treasure trove of stories about Mumbai’s Hindustani music scene

Aneesh Pradhan

· Oct 12, 2019 · 07:00 am

How All India Radio ended up democratising Hindustani music

Aneesh Pradhan

· Aug 29, 2019 · 11:30 am

Listen: Kesarbai Kerkar, Jitendra Abhisheki and Kishori Amonkar explore the same bhajan

Aneesh Pradhan

· Jun 08, 2019 · 06:30 am

Listen: Many Hindustani music purists believe concert repertoire is getting populist. Is it?

Aneesh Pradhan

· Jun 01, 2019 · 08:00 am

Listen: How the composition Sur Sangat Raag Vidya influenced Marathi theatre music

Aneesh Pradhan

· May 18, 2019 · 07:00 am

Why a ‘flag-bearer’ of Kishori Amonkar and Alladiya Khan’s gharana isn’t often seen at big concerts

Nikhil Inamdar

· May 16, 2019 · 11:30 am

Listen: Marathi theatre songs take melodic excursions into bandhi thumri form

Aneesh Pradhan

· May 11, 2019 · 07:00 am

Listen: Bal Gandharva sings Marathi natya geet based on a Hindustani dadra

Aneesh Pradhan

· May 04, 2019 · 10:30 am

Listen: This composition in Kirwani shows how Hindustani music enriched Marathi theatre

Aneesh Pradhan

· Apr 20, 2019 · 07:15 am

The legend of Baiju Bawra: Was there ever a musician who could melt marble with his singular voice?

Malini Nair

· Apr 15, 2019 · 11:30 am

Listen: Kabul’s Alladino Khan sings raags Bhairavi and Megh

Aneesh Pradhan

· Apr 13, 2019 · 07:15 am

Listen: Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Narayan Bodas, Bhimsen Joshi demonstrate how expansive Ektaal is

Aneesh Pradhan

· Mar 02, 2019 · 04:44 pm

What made Kishori Amonkar’s music sublime, complex and radical? Her foremost disciple explains

Nikhil Inamdar

· Feb 25, 2019 · 11:30 am

Listen: These five vocal compositions are set to the versatile Jhaptaal

Aneesh Pradhan

· Dec 15, 2018 · 08:15 am

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

Aneesh Pradhan

· Dec 08, 2018 · 06:00 am

Listen: Classical or semi-classical? These thumris show categorising musical genres lacks logic

Aneesh Pradhan

· Dec 01, 2018 · 06:00 am

Listen: Compositions in sargam geet – a music form used to teach the grammar of raags to beginners

Aneesh Pradhan

· Nov 17, 2018 · 06:00 am

Listen: A poem and qawwali celebrate Diwali – but classical compositions about the festival are rare

Aneesh Pradhan

· Nov 10, 2018 · 06:00 am

Listen: Rajasthani classic ‘Kesariya Baalam’ crosses musical borders with these four varied takes

Aneesh Pradhan

· Sep 15, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘Hot Hindustanis Here’: When Indian classical music and jazz came together for a radical experiment

Anu Kumar

· Aug 30, 2018 · 11:30 am