The 17th-century Ragamala painting of Darbari Kanada beautifully captured the grandeur of the raag. On the painting was inscribed a Sanskrit shloka from the ancient treatise Sangeet Darpan that ...

The fictional world of Raag Darbari came to life on Thursday at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, transporting visitors to the satirical world of Shrilal Shukla’s iconic 1968 novel. Actor Pankaj Tripathi ...

Mukesh was most emotionally bonded to this tune, so all we will do is look at his songs engaging with this raag in films. In his fascinating book, Windows To The Soul: And Other Essays on Music, Manek ...

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has ...

Maestros Pandit Rajan & Sajan Mishra held the audience spellbound with an outstanding rendition of Raag Darbari Kanada. It was a classic display of employing voice modulation, meends and ghasits to ...

New Delhi, Hindi writer Shrilal Shukla’s timeless classic “Raag Darbari” was initially met with sneers in some corners of the Hindi literary world, as leading authors and critics like Nemichand Jain ...

Raag Darbari is Sahitya Academy award winning novel of noted Hindi writer Shrilal Shukla portraying power struggle in rural landscape of post Independence India in a satirical vein that has gone ...

Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan said when his father Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan was honoured with the Padma Bhushan award in 1960, he had asked the then President Dr Rajendra Prasad to protect the sanctity of ...

There was a time when broadcasts on All India Radio, also called Akashvani, attracted new public concert opportunities for performers. This was particularly so when a musician had a successful ...

A fortnight ago, this column carried an article on a women’s music conference held in Calcutta in 1954. The article seems to have intrigued and excited several readers because a programme focusing ...