Ideas Without Boundaries.
It is a traditional wind instrument made from a bamboo reed with a few holes in it. The story goes that an insect pierced that hole to hide from a storm. As the wind roared, the hole in the bamboo echoed with an enchanting note. Read More …
“The sensitive fingers caress the silver strings; a shower of magical notes intoxicates the enraptured audience; music comes alive when strummed by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.” I wrote these words for a Times of India article as a teenager after my first meeting with Ustad Read More …
He walks on to the stage and the atmosphere is electrified. The roar of the crowd and an endless standing ovation moves him beyond words as he clasps his hands together in acknowledgment. Elegantly clad, charismatic, he remains an amazing musician at 84, in spite Read More …
“Kaun Kehta Hai Mohabbat ki zuban hoti hai / Yeh haqeeqat to nigahon se bayan hoti hai.” (- Who is it who can say that love can be conveyed through words / Its truth is mirrored in the eyes”). Jagjit Singh sang this very popular Read More …
“There is no greatness without pain.” He was a child prodigy who gave his first professional performance at the age of eight, and today Ustad Shahid Parvez is considered one of the greatest sitar players in the world after Pandit Ravi Shankar, and yet in Read More …
He is over 70 and yet his voice soars to heights vocalists half his age struggle to attain. He has been honored with the Padma Vibhushan, the title of Sangeet Martand, and innumerable other accolades, yet Pundit Jasraj takes it all in his stride. In Read More …
His musical journey has had the most unlikely beginnings and yet today he is the greatest living flute player in the world. He insists he may create heavenly music blowing into a piece of bamboo, but he remains jealous of Lord Krishna, who in spite Read More …
He is perhaps the last of the living legends among male singers, gifted with a unique voice no one has managed to ape till now. While you come across clones of other legendary singers in the present day world of vocal music, Manna Dey remains Read More …
She worshipped the sounds of music, though there was nothing musical in her family background. Shying from the limelight, she was nevertheless thrust into it, by the chant of a Shiv shloka, rising to dizzying heights of success. Music maestro O.P. Nayyar, had said she Read More …
He is called the bhajan samrat, the ghazal maestro and performs an incredible 12 concerts every month, traveling around the world five, six times a year. He accomplished in five years what took Elvis Presley 27, when in 1998 he surpassed Presley’s record of 45 Read More …