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· Apr 20, 2023 · 12:08 pm
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· Jan 19, 2019 · 11:30 am
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Thanks to two masters, the pakhawaj is getting its groove back.

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· 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.

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· Apr 20, 2017 · 11:30 am
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· Dec 19, 2016 · 05:30 pm
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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.

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

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