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 ...

Sarod maestro Pt Buddhadev Das Gupta, an unmatched guru, an exponent of the Shahjahanpur gharana and a celebrated performer with a deep cerebral approach to music, succumbed to a cardiac arrest at his ...

California-based young sarod maestro Manik Khan’s first visit to Kerala was made possible by Graeme Vanderstol who has, for over half a century, been an ambassador of Indian art and culture in the US.

Amjad Ali Khan, a virtuoso on the lute-like sarod, started his first American tour in the mid-1960s. From the age of 6, he had performed in his native India, and teenage Khan was ready to bring the 25 ...

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 ...

Mid-noon is an odd time for a classical music concert by a musician irrespective of his calibre. It is also seldom cherished even by ardent rasikas. However, maestro Manik Khan transported his small ...

Hemendra Chandra Sen, who put a nondescript shop near Deshapriya Park on the map of Hindustani classical music, died early on Saturday. The maker of instruments, especially the sarod and the sitar, ...