For some of us, the weekend morning concert is a favourite music event. It’s not often that we get to go to one, but smaller organisers, house concert hosts, and other home-grown music spaces do ...

For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...

Amit Chaudhuri’s teenage discovery of the raga transformed his understanding of music, connecting it to the rhythms of life and challenging Western artistic conventions. While most good books could ...

Traditions are now being determined and standardised by urban culture which swears by thrilling permutations of speed, shorn of emotive coloration offered by raga-music. But Indian philosophy and ...

There is a wealth of ragas in the broad field of Indian classical music, each with the special capacity to arouse feelings and alter the listener's mood. Among them, some ragas are well known for ...

Hindustani music exponent Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty is well-known for his scientific approach towards music. But actually, nothing is derived from shastras here. The name is wrong. It should be called ...

When I first heard the raga jazz pieces on Charu Suri’s album The Book of Ragas, Volume I, I was immediately fascinated by her music. The combination of the jazz combo accompanying a vocalist singing ...

In the world of classical music, Ranjani and Gayatri are RaGa, the Carnatic collective name that has come to define the genre through their musical eloquence and their stance against accusations of ...

Ustad Nawab Khan and I cooked up the idea of a raga retreat last summer. Our aim: keep it simple, get to the heart of the matter, tell the raga story. This February we welcomed guests to our first ...