A Bengaluru couple wants to save India’s tribal music – with a little help from urban artists

In their first project, Piyush Goswami and Akshatha Shetty have focused on Assam’s Biate tribe.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· Jan 19, 2019 · 11:30 am

Punjab’s pakhawaj is the ideal percussion instrument – so why did it lose out to the tabla?

Thanks to two masters, the pakhawaj is getting its groove back.

Vandana Shukla

· Sep 29, 2017 · 11:30 am

Meet the lawyer whose musical rendition of an old elegy to Imam Husain is leaving Indians teary-eyed

Askari Naqvi is re-contextualising Soz Khwani, or songs of lamentation, and presenting them outside their strictly religious setting.

Malini Nair

· Apr 20, 2017 · 11:30 am

Kabir meets Bob Marley: The Mumbai band singing poetry set to Jamaican beats

'We quit our jobs for Kabir.'

Damini Kulkarni

· Dec 19, 2016 · 05:30 pm

‘La La Land’ and the difference between their musicals and our song-and-dance films

Hollywood uses the song as a hyphen, Bollywood as a semi-colon.

Mustansir Dalvi

· Dec 07, 2016 · 01:30 pm