The world of the arts can only flourish fully if there are patrons and an audience. An audience can only forgather if the performance is facilitated...

Hindi feature films relating to classical artists and their art are rare. One of the first was the 1952 black and white movie 'Baiju Bawra' that dealt...

Last week, the 36 year old Abhishek Raghuram was honoured by the Tamil Nadu State government with its prestigious Kalaimamani award. Grandson of the...

Photo credit : Avinash PasrichaAfter an arid hiatus of live concerts, normalcy in the world of the arts is returning with a bang in the city of Pune....

The only celebrated classical musician to receive a Padma award this year, Bombay Jayashri was her usual composed graceful self on what the award...

In an exclusive interview, Debashish Bhattacharya, Grammy-nominated renowned classical guitarist talks about his newly created instrument ‘Pushpa...

2020 has witnessed a profusion of virtual concerts and musical collaborations between artists in different spaces and artists building up their social...

The pandemic and travel restrictions have opened the doors to hitherto unknown means of expressing creativity. Toronto based Carnatic classically...

The benefits of music were verbalised in the Western world as early as in the times of Aristotle (385-322BC) who said "when we hear music and poetry,...

Violin maestro Dr L Subramaniam’s recently released double album ‘Beyond Borders’ features some of the legendary jazz exponents in collaboration with...

In North India, Dassehra is a time for riotous celebration, burning images of Ravana; in East India it is the culmination of 9 days of Devi worship,...

Come November and there is a 'virtual' gala feast of online concerts and dances. The world of the arts is resigned to the season being more or less...