Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

The sarod, a lute-like instrument widely used in folk music across Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, has nearly fallen silent in Pakistan. The stringed instrument has featured in several ...

New Delhi: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan's sarod, which he has played for the last 45 years, has gone missing on his return trip to Delhi from London on a British Airways flight.

Originally, the term ‘gharana’ referred to a khaandaan or family of professional musicians with successive generations involved in the performance and teaching of a specific style of Hindustani vocal ...

For their contribution to the Indian music soundscape, the masterful sarod-playing wife and sitarist husband are being felicitated with a lifetime achievement award For their contribution to the ...

Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and ...

New Delhi: Indian classical musician Ustad Amjad Ali Khan's sarod, which he has been playing for the last 45 years, has gone missing while he was returning to Delhi from London by a British Airways ...

Get ready for Instrumentalists, a platform to celebrate Indian classical instruments. Initiated by First Edition Arts (FEA) in association with G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture, the debut ...

Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has a suggestion for aspiring musicians that if they want a career then they should not learn classical music. He added that classical music is a lifelong service ...

Their story is not about overnight success or going viral on social media. It's about continuity — not just of a musical tradition, but of familial responsibility, cultural defiance, and personal ...