Amidst the cacophony of the fairground, the sound of the flute came floating in the air. An elderly man was seen immersed in playing the bansuri (flute). He sat on a mat, with his craft — bamboo ...

Bamboo holds a very sacred place in Feng Shui, Vaastu Shastra and other religious aspects. It is considered to be a very powerful good luck symbol and is believed to usher in a lot of positivity at ...

For most Westerners, Indian classical music begins with the sitar and ends with the tabla. More aware listeners may also be familiar with the lute-like sarod and the double-reed shenai. But few are ...

When Grammy-winning Indian flautist Rakesh Chaurasia lifts his bansuri, the bamboo flute supposedly played by the deity Krishna, something more than music fills the air. It’s memory, meditation and an ...

What the 'jhumpka' is to Bareilly, the 'bansuri' (flute) is to Pilibhit. Traditionally, Pilibhit is known to craft the best bamboo flutes in India. Flute-makers here are struggling to keep afloat. Now ...

Even on the toughest township streets of South Africa, one could always hear a lively beat and a soulful song. Under apartheid, even music was segregated. That's partly how Deepak Ram — who was raised ...

The story of upcoming Bollywood flick Bansuri: The Flute did not incubate in the filmi circles of Bombay. It was born somewhere near a drama stage in Chennai’s Mylapore, where Tamil playwright Augusto ...

Annual musical event Bansuri Utsav will pay homage to renowned tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain in its upcoming edition next month, the organisers announced on Thursday. Hussain, one of the greatest ...