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Bihar BJP MLA draws flak for remaining seated during state anthem in assembly

A Bharatiya Janata Party legislator remained seated when the state anthem was played in the state assembly on Wednesday, prompting the ruling 'Mahagathbandhan' to take offence over the action.......

Santoor maestro Shivkumar Sharma is dead

Santoor virtuoso Pt Shivkumar Sharma, who took the stringed instrument to the global stage and successfully straddled the worlds of classical and film music, died in Mumbai on Tuesday following a......

Remembering Girija Devi, the voice of Benares

'There is no one who can fill the vacuum created by the passing of Girija Devi,' mourns Sunita Budhiraja. Photograph: Kind courtesy Suyash Dwivedi/Wikimedia Commons It was the year 2008. I learnt......

Brijmohan Lall Munjal: A hero forever

Brijmohan Lall Munjal was a perfectionist, who empathised with people who worked for him. 'Hero Forever' posters with Brij Mohan Lall Munjal could be seen on lamp posts leading to the Indira Gandhi......

Kanpur starts its own FM Radio station

Community FM radio, the first-of-its-kind in any of the IITs in the country, was launched on Friday in the premier engineering institute here. Hectic preparations were on for a year to start the FM......

IIT-Kanpur FM to go on air in Nov

IIT-Kanpur is all set to start its own FM radio station which will broadcast scientific programmes and classical music from November. This will be the first time that an FM radio station will be......

Death of the classical music industry

The ageless voice of vocalist Prabha Atre floats off the speakers at the head office of Ninaad Records. The niche music label is in the process of putting together a two-series album comprising......

What are you downloading next?

Punjabi pop, heavy metal, hard rock and tuneless songs from some of the recent Hindi flicks. These are some genres that lack appeal, especially when it blares from your mobile phone into the......

Why The Music Of Hero Is Important To Jackie's Career

For the last 20 years, every Sunday two flautists land up at Jackie Shroff’s residence with one mission: To play the popular flute passage from his star-making film, Hero. "Every Sunday,......

Rest Well, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma

Santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passed into the ages on May 10. He was 83. Celebrities from the music fraternity paid their respects to Panditji at his State funeral in north west Mumbai. .......

Hariharan on Shiv-Hari: 'Those were lovely days'

IMAGE: Juhi Chawla and Sunny Deol in Darr. Singer Hariharan worked quite a few times with Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, who passed into the ages on May 10, and flautist Hari Prasad Chaurasia.......

Shiv-Hari's MAGIC in The Movies

'Mere Haathon Mein Nau-Nau Chudiya Hain showed how skillfully Shiv-Hari could weave into the commercial idiom.' IMAGE: Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha in Silsila. If it wasn't for Khayyam, there would......

S P Balasubrahmanyam's TOP 25 Songs

Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......

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