Music

"What do you feel when you listen to this music?" 🎵🤔 I posed this question during a recent guest lecture at College of Arts, Media and...

"Making the familiar strange and the strange familiar!" Whilst anthropologists and sociologists use this phrase, I've found it to be just...

It was such a pleasure listening to students from different schools in Bangalore perform at the inter-school music competition organized...

Did you know * nearly six millions Indians migrate within the country each year? * more than 50% of Bangaloreans are migrants? June and...

"I'm from Odisha,' she said. The young woman approached me at the end of the premiere of my production प्रवास - Pravaas - A Migrant's...

Almost every carnatic musician becomes familiar with this raga when they become performers. In a typical carnatic kutcheri the first song...

This is the first varnam that students typically learn. A composition of Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar in raga Mohanam and tala Adi, the...

I am thrilled to get on Instagram and use the space to share my passion for Indian Classical Music. With over three decades of being a...

These are some ensembles of women drummers. Do share your favourites!

Each time I perform the work of the Bhakti mystics, it is a deeply emotional experience. Yesterday the evocative poetry of the...

I learnt something new last week. It was after a program in Lucknow during Basant Panchami where I had presented Hindi bhajans. On stage...

A quick playlist of some of my favourite songs of Ustad Rashid Khan. Please share your favourites!

Carnatic classical musicians have a rich and varied collection of compositions, going back hundreds of years. Throughout the 20th...

As the name suggests Natya Sangeet is musical drama where songs narrate a story. The music in Natya Sangeet has a rich classical base...

Kannada has a long tradition of beautiful poetry and music such as #vachana and #dasa sahitya. Nityotsava is a musical celebration of the...

Kannada has a long tradition of beautiful poetry and music such as vachana and dasa sahitya. Nityotsava is a musical celebration of the...

During the pandemic, while confined indoors is when I started paying more attention to the sounds of birds and how musical they sounded....

It was a joy rehearsing for my upcoming program Udaan - Flights of Fancy, a musical exploration of birds with fellow musicians Vaibhav...