Raga Yaman expresses the ultimate humility. The raga has an untainted appeal or urge of shaking off ego, haughtiness and arrogance. One can completely surrender one's soul to the ultimate, through ...

We begin this week’s feature on raag Yaman with a recording of a live concert in Kolkata dating back to 1976. The artist, eminent vocalist Hirabai Barodekar (1905-1989), was one of the chief ...

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is rumoured to be a big fan of the raag Yaman Kalyan. He finds a way to drop the raag into his latest movie Padmaavat, in the sequence in which the treacherous sage Raghav Chetan ...

Having trained in and performed for years music that is steeped in tehraav (restrain), it isn’t surprising Nityanand Haldipur comes across as a calm and introspective artiste. His responses to ...

Abhijit Bhaduri is a talent management expert and an executive coach to leaders. He is a certified Independent Director and one of the most followed writers on how technology is changing the world of ...

For any Indian music to feel richer, raags have been used to add weight, depth and beauty to lyrics. In 2026, classical music is making a comeback after a long time with chartbuster songs.