A raga is the soul of Indian classical music. It carries a mood, a personality, and a journey of its own. One doesn’t need to be a scholar to appreciate it; rasikas instinctively respond to the ...

For some of us, the weekend morning concert is a favourite music event. It’s not often that we get to go to one, but smaller organisers, house concert hosts, and other home-grown music spaces do ...

Amit Chaudhuri’s teenage discovery of the raga transformed his understanding of music, connecting it to the rhythms of life and challenging Western artistic conventions. While most good books could ...

When I first heard the raga jazz pieces on Charu Suri’s album The Book of Ragas, Volume I, I was immediately fascinated by her music. The combination of the jazz combo accompanying a vocalist singing ...

Ustad Nawab Khan and I cooked up the idea of a raga retreat last summer. Our aim: keep it simple, get to the heart of the matter, tell the raga story. This February we welcomed guests to our first ...