The music most of us consume today often feels shaped by a sense of urgency. It seems compressed into shorter runtimes and ...

We are losing the traditions and gurus of one of the most prolific musical traditions in the sub-continent Their visit was meant not just for the pleasure of their performances, but as we were ...

Hindustani classical music summons manifold layers and sub-genres. If devotion and spirituality form the coating, Dhrupad — the oldest existing form - concludes the genus. It is the precursor to Khyal ...

Rooted in the meditative depths of India’s oldest classical tradition, Dhrupad Bandhu — Sanjeev Jha and Manish Kumar — have ...

Dhrupad, the oldest genre of Hindustani classical music, is one of India’s most prized legacies. Though of late its popularity seems to be dipping, Dhrupad stalwarts Ramakant and Umakant Gundecha, ...

But the Dagar family has been custodians of dhrupad for nineteen generations -- the Dagar brothers were steadfast in their resolve to revive this form.u00a0 What'su00a0in store Today, a dhrupad ...

Every Saturday evening, between 7 pm and 9 pm, an unusual service would take place at the outhouse of the home of Calcutta notable ‘Feringhi’ Kamal Bose. The prayers would be Vedic, notes a 1914 book, ...

“Dhrupad is one of the crowning glories of Indian civilisation, comparable to the Vedas, the Mahakavyas, Buddhist sculpture, Indian metaphysics and aesthetics. Dhrupad is also an important achievement ...

The common notion that Dhrupad has lost its popularity these days, was quite contradicted by the enthusiasm of Dhrupad lovers in two totally different programmes this past week. The first was an ...

THIS is apropos of Prof Hasan Aziz's rejoinder (March 4) to my letter which discussed Dhrupad Gaeki briefly in the context of a Dhrupad singer, Alia Rashid. He disagrees with my saying that this Gaeki ...

Under the auspices of Saptak, students of Hindustani classical music in the city - and indeed anyone who aspires to be a learner - will soon be led into the imposing portals of Dhrupad. And she says ...