Indian classical performing arts like music and dance are carried forward from one generation to the next generation through Guru-shishya parampara. Indian culture has always respected the Guru who ...

From my understanding, Kobi Guru Rabindranath Tagore, as a composer, had infused different influences of Eastern folk, waltz, and sometimes even Carnatic ragas with his innate sense of soothing ...

Mangala Bhatt, a Kathak dancer and guru, died in Hyderabad. She was 62. Mangala and her husband founded Aakruti Kathak Kendra in 1990. The institute trained thousands of Kathak students. Both received ...

One of this year’s Sangeet Natak Akademi Award winners, mridangam player Neyveli Narayanan is happy that he’s receiving the honour as he steps into the 50th year of playing the mridangam. “It’s a year ...