For their contribution to the Indian music soundscape, the masterful sarod-playing wife and sitarist husband are being felicitated with a lifetime achievement award For their contribution to the ...

A recipient of Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (1999) and Husn-i-Karkardagi (2015), Sachu Khan from Dera Bugti in Balochistan is known throughout Pakistan and abroad for his mastery over the sarod. He was invited by ...

Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Alam Khan admits that he was emotionally adrift for a time while he grieved for his father, the great North Indian classical musician Ali Akbar Khan, who died in June. “I buried ...

F ascinated by the sound of sarod, Pandit Brij Narayan, the eldest son and disciple of the world renowned sarangi maestro Pandit Ram Narayan, opted to choose sarod as his instrument. He was in the ...

Their story is not about overnight success or going viral on social media. It's about continuity — not just of a musical tradition, but of familial responsibility, cultural defiance, and personal ...

Next to the sitar, the sarod is the most well-known Indian stringed instrument of classical northern Indian music. Sarod means “beautiful sound” or “melody” in Farsi, and is thought to have have ...

Khan, in his interview to Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Sansad TV, said as a child he was so much drawn to tabla that his "worried father" had the musical instrument hidden from him for a few months.

It was interesting to hear a sarod recital by Abhishek Lahiri at the ISCON temple in East of Kailash recently. The auditorium is compact with an excellent sound system, and the central location with ...