Deepak Raja's world of Hindustani Music

A few years ago, I had interviewed a couple of senior Tabla professionals as part of my research for a book. They spoke of the “Zakir Effect...

    In the conclusion to Part I of this exploration, I had raised a few questions about the role of the Sitar in the emerging musical enviro...

  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...