Amit Kavthekar studied tabla from an early age with renowned tabla masters Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain, and is active in ...

Even on the toughest township streets of South Africa, one could always hear a lively beat and a soulful song. Under apartheid, even music was segregated. That's partly how Deepak Ram — who was raised ...

Flautist Pandit Nityanand Haldipur, in Kolkata for a music conference, speaks to Tathagata Ray Chowdhury about his music, his gurus Pandit Pannalal Ghosh and Annapurna Devi, and the former’s ...

In Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, the bamboo bansuri is more than a musical instrument—it is a living family craft. From melas and devotional gatherings to trained musicians seeking precise tuning, flutes ...

In cultures across the world, it is that one piece of reed that causes man’s innermost realm to transcend the mundane, be it the Romanian Pan Flute, the Armenian Duduk, the Irish Tin Whistle, the ...

Overall, Do Deewane Seher Mein doesn’t provoke dramatic emotional highs, but it tenderly explores two individuals navigating their personal battles with insecurity and self-worth. The sequel is ...

When we think of soothing music, it’s often the soothing, soul-stirring notes of the bansuri that first reach our ears. And when it’s bansuri, one name rises above all — legendary flautist, Padma ...

After Bareilly got its famous ‘jhumka’, it’s now the turn of Pilibhit to get its own ‘bansuri’ chowk to showcase the Uttar Pradesh district’s connection with the manufacture of flutes. Pilibhit is ...

The story of upcoming Bollywood flick Bansuri: The Flute did not incubate in the filmi circles of Bombay. It was born somewhere near a drama stage in Chennai’s Mylapore, where Tamil playwright Augusto ...