Suanshu Khurana

Rishi Kapoor immortalised some of the finest songs on the silver screen.

Changing times are calling for a changing tune. And now, several Indian classical dance exponents are attempting to use the current times as their theme, while creating choreographic movements.

Masakali 2.0 is unbearable — just like so many other remixes doing the rounds. But are we to blame composer Tanishk Bagchi, who is only a manifestation of a systemic problem?

In the month of the centenary of Pt Ravi Shankar, Ut Vilayat Khan’s son and Grammy-nominated sitar player Ut Shujaat Khan talks about the relationship between the two legends, and how the contest kept them on their toes.

One of sitar’s greatest exponents, who took Indian classical music to the world, Robindro Shankar Chowdhury would have turned 100 on April 7

Ghazal singer Shanti Hiranand, the torchbearer of Begum Akhtar gayaki and the student and shadow of the famed ghazal singer, passed away on Thursday night

A plethora of poets around the world are writing at this time, in some ways documenting a crisis and finding new meanings and adjectives for life, death and everything in between. Then there is the matter of what it feels to have been confined in one’s homes.

From Berlin Philharmonic orchestra’s virtual concert to artistes performing in their homes, the choice is aplenty.

New York-based guitarist Shubh Saran on finding his way through jazz, comparing notes with Indian classical music and returning to his roots.

Filmmaker Deepti Gupta’s documentary Shut Up Sona, which focuses on a musician’s demand for gender equality, will open the IAWRT festival.

Instead of Lana Wilson, it’s Taylor Swift who seems in control of the narrative she wants people to take home.

German-Turkish singer-songwriter Alev Lenz on her acapella album, singing quarter notes and dismantling patriarchy.

Carnatic vocalist T M Krishna on his new book, Sebastian and Sons, on mrdangam makers and steering through the tricky terrain of caste politics.

The sitar player on heartbreak, life after divorce, her new album and a first-time stage collaboration with sister Norah Jones in Pandit Ravi Shankar’s birth centenary.

Saraswati Rajagopalan’s veena recital in Delhi’s Hazrat Inayat Khan Dargah was an ode to the Sufi saint

In his centenary year, remembering music composer Naushad, whose quest for soulful melodies led to iconic tracks that changed the topography of Hindi film music

Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain’s concert in Delhi was one of a kind, where musicians and masses listened to the king of drums.

Republic Day 2020 Patriotic Songs: We list a few patriotic songs that have lived on and still manage to stir a sense of pride.

‘I’m not a number. I’m a citizen.'

Aabha Hanjura on singing in Koshur, and finding her roots through music.

Renowned contemporary dancer Astad Deboo on his learnings of 50 years, his upcoming ode to Gandhi, and expressing solidarity with students on the street.

“I thought it was a technical glitch,” Chaturvedi, speaking from Hyderabad, said Friday. It wasn’t. She realised it in minutes when she was still sitting on the stage and the next act was announced. UP officials say it was cut short due to time constraint

Flanked by the North and South blocks and the Rashtrapati Bhavan towards the end of Rajpath, in the hush of the moment, there plays a sombre plea to god to always be present in life and through death.

Two poems written in two different times and contexts are engaging with new rhythms through creative transpositions.