People sometimes fall in love at first sight — but Jyoti Hegde fell in love at first sound. The renowned Rudra Veena player, who performed at a recent music festival at NCPA in Mumbai before taking to ...

The winner of the popular singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs will receive a special gift from the Mangeshkar family - a pure silver 'Veena' instrument. Usha Mangeshkar, a member of the ...

Nirmala Rajasekar is one of the top performers of the veena - a South Indian stringed instrument - in the world. She makes her home in Plymouth, but spends three to four months each year on tour.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt took an unusual route on the way to Grammy-winning success. Once a disciple of the renowned sitarist Ravi Shankar, he had learned the complex nuances of Hindustani (north Indian) ...

At a modest house in Plymouth, the best veena player in North America goes about her busy schedule. Amid teaching a select set of students and organizing her global concert itinerary — including a ...

The 10th Ritachhanda Festival, held recently in Kolkata, provided the audience an opportunity to witness Amrit Yatra under the direction of Kalamandalam Piyal Bhattacharya, a Sangeet Natak Akademi ...

With globalisation, Indian artforms have developed a wider audience base. Larger auditoriums, increased travel, and more number of concerts have led to rethink of construction of many traditional ...

For 83-year-old veena exponent Padmavathy Ananthagopalan, not a day passes without playing the instrument. She starts her day with classes at 6am and doesn’t rest till the evening. But, nothing tires ...

Seven years ago, a young sculptor from Varad village in Malvan was asked if he could craft two unusual wooden figures – the heads of the mythological serpent Vasuki and a peacock. For Kunal Joshi, the ...