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Listening to the world: Amit Chaudhuri’s book argues that classical Hindustani music is modernist Poet and writer Ashok Vajpeyi’s reads ‘Finding the Raga’. Amit Chaudhuri performing in 2020. The new book of prose by the well-known fiction writer Amit Chaudhuri is described by him as “a narrative but not a story, a series of opening paragraphs, where life is about to happen”. It has autobiographical details including those of initiation into music, and Hindustani classical music, insights into many aspects and history of that music, a narrative of its teachers as Amit found...

‘The most secret part of yourself’: Amit Chaudhuri on what riyaaz means to the classical musician An excerpt from the writer and singer’s new book, ‘Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music.’ Apr 02, 2021 · 08:30 am They say students of classical music practise for hours, and this must be true, because I had to. And I’d heard that classical singers begin at the age of six or seven (since the mythology is romantic, the age decreases, and the number of hours goes up); I felt inwardly at a disadvantage, like a person who’s moved to a new country, tries to learn a n...

With Open Ears, Indian Ragas and Western Melodies Merge Amit Chaudhuri charts his musical journey in a new book, “Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music.” Amit Chaudhuri’s “Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music,” out now from New York Review Books, blends memoir and music appreciation.Credit...Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times out now from New York Review Books. In it, Chaudhuri charts a personal journey that began with a Western-oriented love for the singer-songwriter tradition, followed by a headlong immersion into Indian classical music. That her...