Deepak Raja's world of Hindustani Music

BOOK REVIEW March 30, 2010 KHAYAL VOCALISM - Continuity Within Change: Deepak Raja DK Printworld (P) Ltd., F-52 Bali Nagar, New Delhi-110...

When I first heard Kshem Kalyan, I was totally charmed. I looked for authoritative documentation; but I found none. I acquired the few av...

I first heard Shahana from Ustad Vilayat Khan. Must have been in the early 1970s. He drifted into it without announcing the raga. As the ra...

Shahid spoke to Deepak Raja on January 8, 2004 Upto the age of 15, I was trained on the sitar by my father, Aziz Khansaheb. My uncle, Haf...

Indian Horizons The Journal of The Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi Vol. 51, Autumn issue Hindustani Music – A tradition...

Dhondutai spoke to Deepak Raja on May 4, 2003 My father was a schoolteacher in Kolhapur and trained in the Gwalior style of vocal music. ...

Shujaat Khan spoke to Deepak Raja on July 21, 1996 1960, I was born. I have no idea what was happening until 1966, when I performed for ...

Shree is amongst the oldest raga-s in the Hindustani art music pantheon. But, it is not clear whether the melodic entity currently identifie...

This essay is now published in my fourth book: Removing it from here was considered proper, though not contractually obligatory, in...

“The knowledge of music becomes an effective means of attaining one-ness with Lord Shiva; for by the knowledge of music, one attains to a s...