Chandigarh, November 22 To a five-year-old Daler Mehndi, ‘Aarti’ was a magical friend, which could make him visualise a sky full of billions of twinkling stars. Decades later, connecting to his ...

Swami Vivekananda formed the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897; today there are 201 branches all over the world. The saint was also very fond of music. A fine singer himself, he had learnt classical Indian ...

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 ...

A jugalbandi was arranged by Sangeethapriya at Raga Sudha Hall, where a happy confluence of the Carnatic and Hindustani systems was sought to be realised. Narmadha (on the violin) and Injikkudi ...