Pune: Sawani Shende recited a fabulous Ragamala composed by Pandit Bholanath Bhatt. It comprised a journey through 18 ragas, fleetingly touching each raga’s essence. A ragamala in vocal music also ...

T he heart and soul of Indian classical music is the raga, comprising the variants of the seven swaras, and derived from the 72 Melakartha or parent seven note scales, thus enabling composers and ...

Hindustani classical music, one of India’s oldest and most refined art forms, follows a unique and deeply spiritual principle known as the Samay Raga System—the association of specific ragas with ...

Dilip Kumar learnt to play the sitar for his 1960 song Madhuban mein Radhika naache from his film Kohinoor, Shabana Azmi took lessons from a Carnatic singer to learn the basic ragas for her film, ...