Why only Indians watch Bollywood films - Livemint.com
25 May 2012, 2:24 pm
Only we receive it. We can see our cultural isolation elsewhere. Let’s turn from cinema to music. The primary function of hindustani music is to communicate melancholy. It is so beautifully efficient at doing this that it does not even need words to ...

BBC Asian Network In Conversation with Madhuri Dixit - Bollywood Spice
24 May 2012, 1:11 am
In her exclusive BBC Asian Network interview, she talks about growing up in a musical family and how her love for the arts grew from an early age: “My mum was a hindustani classical singer and I think I must have heard her sing and you know ...

Art should flow out like a river: Sucheta - Express Buzz
23 May 2012, 10:12 pm
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: When vocalist Abhradita Banerjee came to Kerala, she brought along with her, hindustani Music. When she brought her family friend Sucheta Shivakumar to Kerala, what came along was that dance of the storytellers - Kathak.

Jazz and its moods - Asian Age
22 May 2012, 5:52 am
It does have a somewhat formal technique, which is quite unlike anything in hindustani music. It weaves in and out like the wafting of the loom. And just like a loom, jazz creates a design that is like a pattern of the tonal quality of this kind of music.

Pune to host music documentary festival from Thursday - Times of India
21 May 2012, 5:42 pm
Renowned hindustani classical exponent Pandit Sajan Mishra will inaugurate the festival at NFAI. A short film on Pandit Rajan-Sajan Mishra titled 'Advait Sangeet' would be screened. 'Rasikpriya' and 'Lokpriya',- two short films on the traditions ...

Damodar Valley to replicate Gujarat's canal-top solar plant - Business Standard
21 May 2012, 1:31 pm
"We want to help state governments. We don't discriminate ....Hum sab hindustani hai...Hindustan bachega to hum bachenge (We all are Indians, if India survives, then only we will survive)," he said, adding, "We want to strengthen the nation." Abdullah also ...

A festival aimed at healing - Deccan Herald
21 May 2012, 1:10 pm
The finale was a performance by none other than the veterans of hindustani classical Padma Bhushan Pandits Rajan-Sajan Mishra.

A Mumbai gharana finds its way home - Hindustan Times
19 May 2012, 2:45 pm
Yet, the only hindustani classical gharana (musical style) to have originated in Mumbai came from Bhendi Bazar, courtesy three singer-brothers from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh — Ustad Chhajju Khan, Nazir Khan and Khadim Hussain Khan — who ...

In celebration of a queen of innovation - The Vancouver Sun
19 May 2012, 4:23 am
He taught her well enough that she kept a 13-volume journal written in hindustani. Victoria brushed aside complaints about his presence at court as racism and bigotry unworthy of response. Queen Victoria serves as a symbol in posterity much as she did ...

Karisma is a better actor than before, says Arya Babbar - Glamsham
11 May 2012, 2:02 am
Both the sisters are superstars in their own right. While Karisma was the darling of the masses (RAJA hindustani, JEET & JAANWAR), and had a sizable fan following with the classes (more so after DIL TOH PAGAL HAI), Kareena's appeal is predominantly amongst ...