Hosted by Excurators on 21 June at The Upper HSE by Tivoli in Chattarpur, the evening opened with Meghdoot, an evocative flute recital accompanied by tabla.
Arooj Aftab and Norah Jones spoke about making music at home, writing in Urdu, and the strangeness of returning to other people’s songs after spending years inside one’s own work.
Hindustani classical vocalists Pandit Laxman Krishnarao and Sumitra Guha were honoured for their contribution to music at Sur Jyostna National Music Awards.
After stints at All India Radio and the Jodhpur court, where he was bestowed the title Ustad, Khan entered cinema. His father initially disowned him for composing film music.
The court found a song in Mani Ratnam’s film identical to a classical composition by late musician duo Junior Dagar Brothers, directing the composer & Madras Talkies to pay up over Rs 2 cr.
Flute maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia says this about SPIC MACAY founder Kiran Seth: ‘If I were prime minister of India, I would have already honoured him with Bharat Ratna.'
TM Krishna being conferred with Sangita Kalanidhi title has led Carnatic musicians to boycott the academy's annual conference. Hurt Brahmin sentiments are now playing the victim card.
'Gurus' like Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan have been exploiting the unbridled power over their students for long—all in the name of 'parampara'. This has to change.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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