Pune: Sawani Shende recited a fabulous Ragamala composed by Pandit Bholanath Bhatt. It comprised a journey through 18 ragas, fleetingly touching each raga’s essence. A ragamala in vocal music also ...

T he heart and soul of Indian classical music is the raga, comprising the variants of the seven swaras, and derived from the 72 Melakartha or parent seven note scales, thus enabling composers and ...

Dilip Kumar learnt to play the sitar for his 1960 song Madhuban mein Radhika naache from his film Kohinoor, Shabana Azmi took lessons from a Carnatic singer to learn the basic ragas for her film, ...

BANASHANKARI: Rare ragas from the melakarta will be revived on Sunday through a rendition of Purandaradasa kritis. Renowned Karnatak musician R K Padmanabha has, over the past few months, set ...