Glimpses of the Ma Shringar Gauri temple, located near the outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque (western gate), in Varanasi on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The doors are opened only once in a year -- on......
Young mridangam artist Kuzhalmannam G Ramakrishnan of Kerala on Saturday set a new Guinness record in percussion instruments by playing the mridangam non-stopfor over 84 hours.Ramakrishnan......
Marble from Rajasthan's Makrana, a three billion-year-old rock from Mysuru for the idol, polished teakwood from Maharashtra -- all corners of the country contributed to making Ayodhya's Ram temple......
They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not......
The present happenings in Manipur are the wages of continued neglect, and not so benign at that, of a vital region and its people. Had we lavished on the North East even a fraction of the care and......
He had to start working in a music shop repairing mridangam, tabla, etc, at the age of seven, not only because of his love for music but to help his mother keep the kitchen fires burning. Today,......
Germany, as the locomotive of Europe, has much to teach India in manufacturing and process management, says Rajeev Srinivasan. November 9 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin......
'Villagers are people without masks.''That is why I call them genuine human beings.''As an actor, I have been inspired by many such genuine characters.' IMAGE: Nedumudi Venu in Charlie. This......
'I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.' On a visit to New York in 2012, as part of an American concert tour, Bappi Lahiri, who sadly passed away on February 15, 2022, met with......
Noted Indian musicians came together to pay tribute to Ustad Alla Rakha on his 15th death anniversary, by staging a grand performance at Shanmukhananda Hall, in Sion, central Mumbai. A look at......
The strains of a classical alaap compel us to enter a hall where a concert is supposedly 'in progress'. On stage is the singer, dressed in an immaculate dhoti-kurta, a chain around his neck. It's......