Music

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...

Teaching has meant learning first! This really hit home when I set out to teach how Music shapes cities at Ahmedabad University.Most...

A musician has many milestones, many firsts - first concert, first album, first tour. This concert recording is special for many reasons....

Navaratri is a festival that celebrates the divine power of the mother goddess, Devi or Durga. It is a time for reflection and...

Listeners gain a renewed appreciation of raga (melody) by comparing renditions of the same song by different artistes, be it a krithi in...

During the pandemic I'd started this series - A song, A composer, A memory. As I remembered incidents from my musical journey and the...

In a public meeting at Ahmedabad Mahatma Gandhi said, "There can be no swaraj where there is no harmony, no music”. Let us celebrate his...

As artists and creators our own work is built on those who came before, be they composers, teachers and other performers. Indian...

Today marks another birth anniversary of the legendary carnatic vocalist M.S.Subbulakshmi. Like all carnatic musicians I grew up...

Here are some songs on Krishna from my concerts over the years.

Here are some songs composed on Murugan by different carnatic composers. Do share your favourite ones with me!

“Lal Ded challenged the social divisions, the parochial mindset, the Brahminical ideology which was ritualistic at that time” says Dr...