music
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Watch: The latest ‘Shape Of You’ cover is an English-Tamil mashup by a (very) young singer
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Listen: How sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan uses the ‘java’ to change moods and tones
Aneesh Pradhan
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Watch: A galaxy of stars performs ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ for victims of Grenfell Tower fire
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Watch: Kalki Koechlin’s slam poetry ‘Noise’ is an ode to silence
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Watch: Percussionist Bickram Ghosh’s fantastic tribute to Kolkata uses only sounds from its streets
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Watch: You have to see the extraordinary process of making a flute from scratch
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Watch: Sign language interpreters are bringing music to the hearing-impaired
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What German composer Bach has in common with the Indian dhrupad genre
George Ruckert
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Remembering Acharya Bach, the ‘last Asian composer’ of Western classical music
George Ruckert
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Sitar maestros demonstrate how the mizrab is more than just a tool with which to strike strings
Aneesh Pradhan
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Watch: Meet Sonia Shirsat from Goa, India’s best singer of the Portuguese Fado
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Why Gandhi’s favourite bhajan ‘Vaishnav Jan To’ is so important in Modi’s hate-filled India
Ananya Vajpeyi
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Watch: JNU student Rahul Rajkhowa raps angrily about rape jokes and fake nationalism
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Watch Indian reggae band Ska Vengers perform live at Tihar Jail
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Listen: Maestros play and sing with the swaramandal, a relative of the autoharp
Aneesh Pradhan
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Watch: This fabulous performance by a deaf singer gets a standing ovation on ‘America’s Got Talent’
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‘Where Are My 72 Virgins’: An Indian metal band's good intentions are not enough
Aakash Karkare
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Watch something happy from Kashmir: Ex-Indian Idol singer’s lively spin to a children’s folk song
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Watch: Robbie Williams breaks down at Manchester concert. The audience joins in to finish the song
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Remembering three decades of friendship with Aamir Zaki, Pakistan’s unsung guitar hero
Nadeem F Paracha