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Suanshu Khurana

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Amar Singh Chamkila — singing defiance in a militancy-hit Punjab

In Ishq mitaye, composer A R Rahman’s marquee piece in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic Amar Singh Chamkila that releases today, lyricist Irshad Kamil takes a...

12.04.2024 10

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Suanshu Khurana

The Sangita Kalanidhi is not only well-deserved. It’s also a message to the divided world of Carnatic classical music to look within.

One does not have to agree with Carnatic classical vocalist T M Krishna’s political views to find soul in his music. Even if one disagrees with his...

31.03.2024 20

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Listeners welled up hearing it in Udhas’s uncomplicated voice, including those who didn’t think much of his voice

In the late 1990s, my mother, a classically trained sitar player, reluctantly attended a Pankaj Udhas concert, cajoled by her closest friend....

28.02.2024 30

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As the world becomes more polarised, Shakti and its win are reminders of how distant traditions can live with each other

In the early ’70s, at a time of global churn, British jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and Ustad Zakir Hussain began making music with violinist L...

08.02.2024 10

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In Imroz’s passing, we lose Amrita Pritam all over again

Once, in a conversation about Amrita Pritam and her live-in partner, painter and poet Imroz, Gulzar saab narrated a story that defined their...

29.12.2023 10

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Bombay High Court's 'salaam' to art without borders

Aankhon ko visa nahi lagta, sapno ki sarhad hoti nahi/ Band aankhon se roz sarhad paar chala jata hun milne/ Mehdi Hassan se (The eyes don’t need a...

25.10.2023 8

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