More often, it is the ‘unlikely rebel’ who scripts stories of a landmark socio-religious change. Be it, the fully-real Yadhu Krishnan of a Travancore shrine or the part-fictional Budh Ram of an eastern UP village.
Durga Puja is the time to refresh skills. Kerala’s Kalpathy Balakrishnan is the only ambidextrous chenda percussionist. The master reveals how he began holding the stick in the right hand, instead of left initially.
It’s a week that marks the birthday of a top classical musician and danseuse. A look at how the two artistes have variedly embellished Hindustani classical and Bharatanatyam recitals…
As another Gandhi Jayanti went by, here’s a thought: For all the famed ‘Bapu bhajans’, what exactly was the approach of the Father of the Nation towards music?
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In the cultural sphere, this ballet coming to India is nothing short of the bullet train running here.
Today is the anniversary of multifaceted musicians Hazarika and Kunnakudi. A peek at the commonalities and contrasts between the Assamese icon and the Tamil instrumentalist...
Despite the fact that mass shooting by white, non-Muslim, males being a common American phenomenon, many jumped to assume that the Las Vegas shooter was a Muslim.
Beyond the shower-hailing ragas, what the famed Malhar umbrella can get today is a classical tune that notionally seeks to abate the downpours.
India’s cartographic claim to Aksai Chin begins with a remarkable Journey made by a 19th Century British official from Leh to Illichi, in Turkestan.
If you had to understand the love song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot, there was no one quite like her. I can still hear Eunice recite, “Let us go then,...
As in the books of other great PoMo writers like Nabokov, Muriel Spark, Martin Amis or David Foster Wallace, Auster’s novels are odd, inscrutable and...
When Daud Khan Sadozai kept his string instrument rabab down after an hour-long performance, a few in the Delhi hall requested the sexagenarian Afghani to...
The Festival, 'Dance Connect', was an exploratory journey through movement, five senses and technology.
Hope to see improved fielding/catching by Indians, says Harbhajan
Protruding ribcage has become the latest criteria for a ‘desirable’ body; The more visible the rib cage, the sexier your shape is deemed to be
Compare this with Delhi traffic scene, it is easy to observe the sharp and rather troubling difference.
Remembering Vinod Khanna, we pick the best flicks featuring the actor whose demise has left Bollywood in shock.
Curated by noted art scholar and critic Uma Nair, the ten-day exhibition, which began last Monday week, has a total of 30 paintings in monochrome and colours.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of AR Rahman’s contribution to the world of film music...
As one of India’s premier institutions of visual culture, Delhi’s National Gallery of Modern Art is holding a show that primarily opens a random but...
'A typical Grimshaw scene is often a leafy, lonely lane skirted by a walled stretch, revealing a brooding mansion beyond, and all of it bathed in an ethereal...
However clichéd another piece on mangoes sound, the fruit continues to seduce and compels you to write anyway...
Studies of the Neanderthals right up to fairly recent times overwhelmingly portrayed these hominins as extremely primitive cavemen – little more developed...
At least five questions raised by MPs during the current session where the government has given irrelevant answers. In all these questions, the MPs sought...
Indore vocalist Gokulotsavji Maharaj leads music-lovers along the corridors of Hindustani classical, while four iconic theatre groups from Delhi take a trip...
