MUMBAI – As 2024 draws to a close, Amazon Music India has unveiled its highly anticipated Best of 2024 list, celebrating the tracks, artists, and podcasts that defined the year. From debut chart ...

“That’s where I met Zakir Hussain. Since then, I’ve looked at music as a way of creating a bridge between India and America,” he said. “Zakir played with all kinds of musicians. And that ...

China and India agreed on Wednesday to work on easing their long-running border dispute, as the two Asian giants resumed a formal high-level dialogue for the first time in five years. Chinese ...

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 ...

Global music icon Bryan Adams, who is currently in India for his So Happy It Hurts Tour 2024, has expressed his love for Indian delicacies such as rajma chawal, momos, vada pavs and masala dosa.

After all, India’s +5.4% ‘real’ GDP growth for the September quarter, or sub-10% nominal (depending on your deflator), means it remains the fastest-growing major economy. Plus, this was a ...

This indispensable instrument of Indian classical music owes its significance to the fixation of ‘sa’ (the tonic note), establishing the adhara shruti as essential for defining ragas.

In the world music segment, the spotlight was shared by ... to an ethereal world with his scintilating recital, where violin had a language of it own. The sawal-jawab jugalbandi of violin and ...

Violin maestro L Subramaniam, a long-time collaborator of Ustad Zakir Hussain, said the late tabla maestro was one of those rarest of rare musicians who was at home with every genre of music. He added ...

Bengaluru, Violin ... every genre of music. He added that the Ustad was undoubtedly one of the pioneering and important global artistes. “In fact, I don’t consider Zakir an Indian musician ...

Zakir Hussain, an internationally renowned tabla player and composer who helped integrate Indian classical sound into Western music, has died at age 73. Hussain died Sunday afternoon in San ...