Music has always been cinema’s invisible character — the one that moves the story forward without a word. On Sunday evening ...

Raga Kalyani is a jazz trio fused with Sufi improvisation. The modal scale, Kalyani, is a Lydian mode and the "queen of ragas" in Indian music. This debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2019 and is meant to ...

Four ragas are presented. "Raga 1" rides an understated rock beat, a crafting of a sort of playful profundity, accompanied by the poetry of a Sufi kalaam (a devotional song) bemoaning the suffering of ...

Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh): On the fifth evening of the 18th Akhil Bharatiya Shravan Mahotsav ‘Shiva Sambhavam’ organised by Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple Management Committee, three famous artistes ...

Then came the masterpiece. Ramamurthy’s scholarly interpretation of the raga Shanmugapriya followed by a tanam kept the audience glued to their seats and in awe. ‘Sri Raja Rajeshwari’ was ...

“Ragas are supposed to be played at a certain time of day,” she explained. “So, when I say, ‘This is an evening raga’ or, ‘This is an afternoon raga,’ people feel the different energies.