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Remembering Pandit Ravi Shankar through some of his work for films
The involvement of stalwarts of Hindustani classical music in the sphere of Indian film music is by no means uncommon. The early history of film music in India is replete with names of great exponents of classical music who also chose to explore the then...
The Glorious Tradition of Etawah-Imdadkhani Gharana
Nesting snugly between the covers of an elegantly designed book titled “The Glorious Tradition of Etawah-Imdadkhani Gharana – The Greats of Seven Generations” is a compact disc with twenty-five very exclusive and rare tracks that are a collector’s delight. Authored by Arvind Parikh, octagenarian sitar...
The buffalo in song :)
The extraordinary media interest generated by the theft of SP leader Azam Khan’s eight buffalos, the investigation into their theft and finally the recovery of the stolen buffalos prompts me to focus my attention this fortnight on buffalo songs, and on songs focusing on animal...
Alvidaa
This has been a year of great losses for Indian music. Sadly, as talent hunts and reality shows replete with fake tantrums and tears and stormy sessions rule the roost on television, few in the electronic or print media have had the time to note...
Epic Lecture Series tomorrow.
I’m speaking tomorrow at 7 pm at the India Habitat Centre. The talk is tiled “Living Music From The Past: Some thoughts on the documenting, archiving and harvesting of the treasures of Indian music”. Collab: Epic The Channel- That Celebrates Indian Heritage brings you a...
Singing at Pushkar !
From the 22nd to the 25th of November, 2015, a festival of sacred music will take place at the sacred town of Pushkar in Rajasthan.I have been invited to present devotional music at the Raj Bohra Ghat in Pushkar on the 22nd of November in...
Stargames – Offiziell lizenziertes Online-Casino mit Top-Bewertungen
Wenn man heutzutage ein gutes Online-Casino sucht, stolpert man schnell über eine Vielzahl von Angeboten. Manche locken mit riesigen Boni, andere prahlen mit Tausenden von Spielen. In diesem Umfeld ist es nicht leicht, den Überblick zu behalten. Genau hier sticht Stargames heraus. Es ist nicht...
Arriving soon ! Hindustani Music in Colonial Bombay
Arriving soon: HINDUSTANI MUSIC IN COLONIAL BOMBAY by Dr. Aneesh Pradhan Published by Three Essays Collective pp xii, 348, plus 36 pages of photographs demy octavo 8.5 x 5.5 in., includes bibliographies and index. In hardcover. ISBN 978-81-88789-96-2
From Goa !
Tumbling back into the chaos and traffic snarls in Delhi after an invigorating ten days or so in Goa (from the 7th to the 17th of September) for my sessions as Visiting Research Professor, Goa University, I cannot help reminiscing about some of the sights...
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