Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

For their contribution to the Indian music soundscape, the masterful sarod-playing wife and sitarist husband are being felicitated with a lifetime achievement award For their contribution to the ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Alam Khan admits that he was emotionally adrift for a time while he grieved for his father, the great North Indian classical musician Ali Akbar Khan, who died in June. “I buried ...

Next to the sitar, the sarod is the most well-known Indian stringed instrument of classical northern Indian music. Sarod means “beautiful sound” or “melody” in Farsi, and is thought to have have ...

F ascinated by the sound of sarod, Pandit Brij Narayan, the eldest son and disciple of the world renowned sarangi maestro Pandit Ram Narayan, opted to choose sarod as his instrument. He was in the ...