Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan's missing instrument which had become a national issue was finally retrieved on Tuesday afternoon, thereby drawing the curtain on a major drama that ensued. On his ...

Musical instruments have always created curiosity, amazement and admiration among those artistes who invented, played and enjoyed their sounds. The ancient Greeks attributed their invention to gods or ...

Mumbai, Jan. 14: The audience was agog. But Ustad Amjad Ali Khan had a shock waiting for them. He held up his sarod for all to see — the teakwood was cracked and the skin torn off at places. It had ...

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 ...

The sarod, a lute-like instrument widely used in folk music across Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, has nearly fallen silent in Pakistan. The stringed instrument has featured in several ...

KOLKATA: Sarod player and composer Arnab Bhattacharya found the oversized bag carrying his sarod broken and the instrument damaged when he reached Abu Dhabi on Sunday. He had travelled from Kolkata to ...

My music can be described as firmly rooted in the Shahjahanpur gharana perpetuated by Radhika Mohan Maitra, but deeply influenced by the Gwalior and Agra, and to a lesser extent, Jaipur khayal gayakis ...

The sarod is one instrument that may or may not have had an Indian origin (Late Vidushi Sharan Rani in her well researched book claims it was definitely an adaptation of an ancient Indian instrument; ...

Mukherjee, a sarod player, is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi’s prestigious Ustad Bismillah Khan Award, among numerous other awards Joydeep Mukherjee presented a mohanveena recital at the G20 ...

Is the popularity of sarod responsible for elbowing out sursringar from circulation, asks Richa Bansal is the popularity of sarod responsible for elbowing out sursringar from circulation, asks richa ...

Students and faculty who visited the Reves Center last Thursday had the opportunity to expand their musical horizons at a master class given by sarod master Irfan Khan. Khan, a member of a prestigious ...