Rasrang
For some time I used to write a column for the Rasrang magazine section of Dainik Bhaskar. This is one of the pieces I wrote for Rasrang several years ago. भारत में संगीत अथवा नृत्य का कार्यक्रम हो और श्रोताओं या दर्शकों को आरम्भ...
Women Composers
Why are there very few women composers in India? This stock question, frequently asked of women musicians, comes loaded with the suggestion of a gender bias tilted in favor of male composers. There is no simple answer to the question, but to begin with, it...
Cross Border
At the risk of being termed the proverbial party pooper, I do believe now is the time to point out that despite all the flutter and fuss preceding and following Mr. Zardari’s visit to India, artistes and musicians from the two countries share a relationship...
The Impact of Globalization on Performing Arts in India
Changing trends in the performing arts rarely manifest themselves with dramatic abruptness. More often than not, they creep up silently, diverting the flow of continuing traditions and practices stealthily but resolutely. As the relentless tidal wave of globalization swept across the world in the last...
On creative collaboration
I am a student of voice and I have been studying voice in the Hindustani classical tradition for over 30 years now. However, I remain curious about music and the use of voice in all systems and traditions, and in new trends too. And I...
Give us this day our daily (good) music
I have to confess You Tube can be quite addictive particularly when I manage to find something as wonderful as this track sung by the inimitable Shobha Gurtu : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkDV5VlO3bY What a voice and what an amazingly impassioned “pukaar” in the singing. Too bad we...
Whose archive is it anyway?
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New trend on Live Preview?
Ask a Hindustani classical musician what he or she will perform at a concert and most likely, you’ll get a lot of humming and hawing or a non-commital dekhenge, kyaa mood bantaa hai…. or something equally ambivalent. Which is what leads me to wonder how...
My land, my state
I meant to write about something else this fortnight but then you see, I got all busy and worked up trying to figure out these new immigration laws that us Indian, but non-Maharashtrian, musicians have to deal with sooner or later. I mean, now that...
Eeks! Look what I found!
I dubbed a film song composed by Adnan Sami some months ago, and heard in the passing that it was for a Vikram Bhatt film called “1920”. I presumed then that I was asked to dub possibly because I had started sounding like I was...
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