Deepak Raja's world of Hindustani Music

  During my interviews with several leading musicians – mainly instrumentalists-- I have found considerable lack of enthusiasm, sometimes ev...

 On January 16, 2004, two months before his father Ustad Vilayat Khan’s demise, I was talking to Ustad Shujaat Khan about his perceptions of...

  The classification of instruments: Around 3000 BC, the Chinese are known to have classified musical instruments based on the material from...

I often discussed with Ustad Vilayat Khan the music of famous pre-independence musicians, whom I had not heard personally, but he would have...

  Attempts at defining music generally begin with “Structured/ organised Sound” , and end up questioning this definition. A universally acce...

  For the 1999 annual issue of the Journal of the Indian Musicological Society, I had co-edited a survey of the Dhrupad genre of Hindustani ...