Amir Khusrau (1253–1325) was a visionary poet, scholar, and musician who played a defining role in shaping hindustani classical music. Living during the Delhi Sultanate, he introduced innovative ...

The country lost its most venerated and loved cultural icons after Pandit Bhimsen Joshi breathed his last in Pune on Monday morning. The doyen of Hindustani classical music, the maestro died of old ...

Padma Bhushan Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty highlights the distinctions between North and South Indian music, noting the devotional focus of Carnatic compositions versus the everyday themes in Hindustani ...

Many classical music listeners, who prefer only the big names, may not be familiar with vocalists Tejaswini Vernekar and ...

Hindustani classical vocalist Ronkini Gupta sings Ae Ri Aali Piya Bin, a Raag Yaman bandish, and then explains it to the audience of about 40 gathered in an elegant living room in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj.

There was a time when Takia Meerasian, a Sufi shrine in Lahore’s walled city, was the “hatchery” for Hindustani musicians, says the late Pakistani critic M Saeed Malik in his book The Musical Heritage ...

For the first time in recent years, an all-night Hindustani classical music concert was organised in Mysuru. The event was organised by the Hindustani Sangeet Kalavidara Okkuta (Hindustani Musicians ...