Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In elaborate Indian weddings, among the various preparations that go on 'behind the scenes' to make it a memorable event, a ...

Twenty years after Ustad Bismillah Khan’s death, the strains of his shehnai continue to echo through India’s cultural consciousness. His music carried the fragrance of the Ganga, the timelessness of ...

As modernism continues to engulf the cultural essence of the subcontinent, there are some dedicated souls who act like a shield against the mindlessness which is taking us away from our cultural ...

For most people in the West, classical Indian raga music means one instrument, the sitar, and one player, Ravi Shankar. Quite why Shankar came to be considered the greatest modern sitar player over ...

“One listens to classical music for inner peace and not for entertainment,” said renowned classical vocalist and shehnai artist Pandit S. Ballesh, a disciple of the world famous shehnai maestro and ...

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CHENNAI: Tunes of the shehnai used in the interludes of the song Tum Tak from the film Raanjhnaa still linger in our minds and ears. In fact, the composer A R Rahman had used tunes from the instrument ...

When was the last time you saw a shehnai vaadak (player) playing at a wedding? Shehnai-has-always-been-considered-auspicious-at-Indian-wedding-ceremonies-Photo-Shutterstock While the instrument has ...

Till it was pedestrianised a year ago, the pavement along Katra Pyare Lal in Chandni Chowk used to be the booking spot of Old Delhi’s shehnai players. This is where they have always waited for their ...

Wedding halls in Kolhapur will echo to the traditional ‘shehnai’ played out by professionals or latest Bollywood numbers belted out by bands, provided the number of guests are reduced to accommodate ...

Pt. Krishna Ram Chaudhary, the melodious ‘sur’ of shehnai, breathed his last in Lucknow on 16th January. His last rights were performed at the Manikarnika Ghat in Kashi, a city where he lived merged ...