Acts Of Retrieval

Traversing through time and seasons with Rashid Khan’s rendition of the Gaud Malhar raga

It brings back to us everything we know and also what we don’t know we know, as historical beings, about the cultural lineage of the rains in this country.

Amit Chaudhuri
· Sep 29, 2024 · 07:30 am
Acts of Retrieval: A ghazal by Mehdi Hassan & the art of improvisation in Hindustani classical music

In a mushaira, a poet reciting their ghazal will repeat a line for effect. But Hassan, in a performance of ‘Kaise Chhupaun Raaz e Gham’, previcarates.

Amit Chaudhuri
· Jan 29, 2023 · 11:30 am
Peak Jasraj: Remembering the Hindustani vocalist’s contribution to the ethos of artistic modernity

The musician created a deeply idiosyncratic, original and modern version of the sophistication of court culture.

Amit Chaudhuri
· Sep 01, 2020 · 02:30 pm

Remembering Mogubai Kurdikar, who mastered the art of perfectionism and self-containment

The vocalist is not as widely heard as she should be – but perhaps that’s by design.

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· Jul 25, 2020 · 11:30 am
Remembering Uma Bose, who presaged a new era for vocal music

‘The Nightingale of Bengal’ died of tuberculosis on her 21st birthday.

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· Jun 23, 2020 · 03:30 pm
Listening to the makeshift abandon of DV Paluskar’s Raag Shree

The maestro’s final recording before he died at the age of 34 is paradoxically alive.

Amit Chaudhuri
· May 31, 2020 · 08:00 am

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Acts Of Retrieval

Traversing through time and seasons with Rashid Khan’s rendition of the Gaud Malhar raga

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Recordings by vocalist Salamat Ali Khan remind us how precise and beautiful the unimaginable can be

He had no peer in Hindustani classical music.

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Acts of Retrieval: The incomparably melodious, uninsistent voice of Barkat Ali Khan

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