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behind the bazaar and that got corrupted to Bhendi Bazaar!” One of the most valuable events of 2020 in Indian Classical Music is this interview series with Pt. Mahale, conducted by Pt. Nayan Ghosh for Baithak Hyderabad, discussing the work of Pt. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande. Mahale is a senior musician and scholar in the direct lineage of Pt. Bhatkhande and is a storehouse of information about Khayal and its history especially as it evolved in Mumbai. The discussion is invaluable for its histor...

Change as formula in Carnatic music Updated: Updated: Music, unless an internal process, can only imitate an emotion, not create one Share Article AAA Ashwath Narayanan performing a virtual concert at The Music Academy’s 2020 Margazhi Festival   | Photo Credit: K V Srinivasan Music, unless an internal process, can only imitate an emotion, not create one Like everything else, the Carnatic concert is also changing. It has always been in a state of change — intrinsically — as individuals l...

Best Indie Releases of 2020: The Albums and Songs That Cut Through the Gloom   This year saw a staggering number of releases. Here, in no particular order, are a few of the notable ones. The pandemic brought the world to a standstill, and with it a pause on social life as we knew it that is still going on. Among the many industries to be hit hard was music, as the shutters came down on concerts, gig venues and festivals with the announcement of a government-mandated lockdown to ensure physic...

The poster of an online dance festival named Udayaraga organised by Odisha Dance Academy. BHUBANESWAR: The year 2020 has witnessed the world fight an invisible enemy on unequal terms. But grit, adaptability and determination to survive helped people sail through the pandemic. The spirit was very evident in those working in the field of art and culture, which took to technology to connect with ‘rasiks’ or connoisseurs despite suffering a huge blow owing to the lockdown. With curtains down o...

The Friday List: From the end of Margazhi to a virtual Victorian walkthrough in Kolkata, a pick of events for the first week of the new year This week, we bring to you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your calendar for the start of the new year. FP Staff December 31, 2020 17:36:39 IST On this weeks #FridayList, ...

R.Pichumani Iyer one of the foremost veena vidwans in Carnatic music, was born on May 18, 1920. R.Pichumani hailed from a family of musicians.  After profiting by early training at the age of 10 in vocal music from Jalar Gopala Aiyar, he later took to the Veena and underwent discipleship under Tiruchi Kupanna. His pursuit of Veena music was dedicated to traditional values and for more than five decades he enjoyed a steady and dignified professional career during which, apart from conventio...

Instagram.com/aditi_ramesh Making art is like a visceral churning, a painful twist of the heart sometimes and a frantic pull of the brain in directions unknown until the work is rendered complete. Women artists have had it tough, even when the world wasn’t hit by a global pandemic. Right from disparity in fees to the kind of emotionally violent trolling they face online, women artists continue to fight all kinds of gender inequalities. And this year, the Indian indie music scene witnessed a r...

AR Rahmans mother Kareema Begum passes away AR Rahman paid a tribute to his late mother on his Twitter page. Reuters, Twitter: @arrahman Updated: Dec 28, 2020, 02:03 PM IST Music maestro AR Rahmans mother Kareema Begum passed away on December 28, 2020. The Oscar-winning musician paid a tribute to his mother by sharing a photo on his Twitter page. Rahman was always close to his mother and often remembered her during his stage shows and also while receiving several a...

Sexual harassment probe: Akhilesh Gundecha dropped from MP’s Tansen Samaroh Since October, an Internal Complaints Committee has been investigating allegations of sexual harassment against Akhilesh Gundecha and Ramakant Gundecha, two of the three Gundecha brothers who run the Dhrupad Sansthan in Bhopal. December 27, 2020 4:12:51 am Akhilesh Gundecha and Ramakant Gundecha Organisers of the Tansen Samaroh, a four-day classical concert series that takes place n...

‘The real Chipko’: How Shekhar Pathak wrote the first exhaustive, people’s history of the movement Pathak’s new book focuses on the ordinary, often unlettered, men, women and children who shaped the forest rights struggle. Dec 27, 2020 · 06:30 am I first came across Shekhar Pathak’s name in the files of the Uttar Pradesh State Archives in Lucknow. The year was 1983, and I was working on a dissertation on the social history of forests in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. In those days t...