Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

Musical instruments have always created curiosity, amazement and admiration among those artistes who invented, played and enjoyed their sounds. The ancient Greeks attributed their invention to gods or ...

Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan's missing instrument which had become a national issue was finally retrieved on Tuesday afternoon, thereby drawing the curtain on a major drama that ensued. On his ...

Mumbai, Jan. 14: The audience was agog. But Ustad Amjad Ali Khan had a shock waiting for them. He held up his sarod for all to see — the teakwood was cracked and the skin torn off at places. It had ...

The sarod, a lute-like instrument widely used in folk music across Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, has nearly fallen silent in Pakistan. The stringed instrument has featured in several ...

Next to the sitar, the sarod is the most well-known Indian stringed instrument of classical northern Indian music. Sarod means “beautiful sound” or “melody” in Farsi, and is thought to have have ...

KOLKATA: Sarod player and composer Arnab Bhattacharya found the oversized bag carrying his sarod broken and the instrument damaged when he reached Abu Dhabi on Sunday. He had travelled from Kolkata to ...

The sarod is one instrument that may or may not have had an Indian origin (Late Vidushi Sharan Rani in her well researched book claims it was definitely an adaptation of an ancient Indian instrument; ...

Is the popularity of sarod responsible for elbowing out sursringar from circulation, asks Richa Bansal is the popularity of sarod responsible for elbowing out sursringar from circulation, asks richa ...

My music can be described as firmly rooted in the Shahjahanpur gharana perpetuated by Radhika Mohan Maitra, but deeply influenced by the Gwalior and Agra, and to a lesser extent, Jaipur khayal gayakis ...

Mukherjee, a sarod player, is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi’s prestigious Ustad Bismillah Khan Award, among numerous other awards Joydeep Mukherjee presented a mohanveena recital at the G20 ...