If Zarin Sharma-Daruwala were alive now, the sarod player would have been 71—a year younger to south Indian classical vocalist Suguna Varadachari, who celebrates her birthday today. The Mumbai-based ...

When Maria sang, “how do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?” in the Sound of Music, she was probably talking about Harini Iyer. Her hair is slicked back with a pastel bandana and a flowy shirt. Her ...

Violin virtuoso N Rajam, 88, who was awarded the Padma Vibhushan last month, on reimagining the Carnatic violin in the ...

A little girl speaks freely with the wind, flows gently with the river, has conversations with birds and wonders if clouds are changing shapes for her. She discovers Nature at its purest form. ‘Kaatre ...

The video was partly shot in Mandaveli and at their ‘Carnatic 2.0 Reloaded’ show in Bengaluru. Elaborating on the idea, Mahesh says, “We wanted to do a fun piece with Carnatic music as the base, but ...

Open mic night is hardly a new concept to the stand-up or poetry circuits of Chennai. “I used to bomb at open mics,” Balaji says with a laugh. “In certain situations, a joke lands well, and in certain ...

In Carnatic music, concerts with instrumentalist headliners such as the veena, flute or violin are a small fraction of performances at most music festivals, including the biggest one of them all the ...

Karpahavalli Carnatic Music Organisation (‘KV’) was founded in 2007, as an independent organisation that focuses solely on the beautiful art of Carnatic music. Based in Sydney, run by students for ...