Going beyond the adulation that Zakir Hussain will continue to receive from his seniors, contemporaries, juniors and fans, ...

IN THE Beatles’ scheme the pop quartet assigned to themselves, Ringo Starr kept the rhythm on the drums. But it was John ...

Sitar master Ashwin Batish, long a fixture in Santa Cruz music, returns to the stage New Year’s Eve to headline The 418 Project’s “Gathering in Gratitude” celebration – and he’ll have his son, ...

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar clarifies misconceptions surrounding meditation on the inaugural World Meditation Day. He emphasizes meditation as de-concentration, not concentration ...

OnThursday, four celebrated artists — Sitar player Pt Niladri Kumar, percussionist Ustad Tawfiq Qureshi, flutist Rakesh Chaurasia and table player Ojas Adhiya — presented ragas and rhythms ...

Born in Mumbai, India, on 9 March 1951, Hussain learned tabla from his father, the great Ustad All Rakha Qureshi, accompanist to Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan ... Arguably the world's greatest tabla ...

Zakir Hussain, who has died aged 73, was a master tabla player whose virtuosity carried his fame beyond his Indian homeland; ...

but when Ravi Shankar died in 2012 he assumed the great sitar player’s role as chief global ambassador for Indian classical music. The tabla consists of two drums played with the fingers and ...

Global spiritual leader and humanitarian Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will give a keynote address at the United Nations on World Meditation Day on December 21. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will also guide a live ...

Sometime in the 1970s, Zakir Hussain, a young and rising tabla virtuoso, was travelling solo to Benaras for a prestigious concert with the legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Worried ...

Bengaluru: Global spiritual leader and humanitarian, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, will guide a live World Meditation on Saturday, following the unanimous adoption of the United Nations General ...

Son of the legendary tabla player Allarakha (1919-2000), who was internationally famous for his partnership with the sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, Zakir grew up with the music of some of the greatest ...