Debojyoti Mishra won the Best Music Director award for ‘Bansuri’ at the 20th Imagine India Film Festival in Madrid. It’s not often you get the chance to represent your country on international ...

The journey of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is nothing short of a Hindi film plot. Born into a wrestler’s family in Allahabad, he secretly pursued the flute and took the humble folk instrument to the ...

When we think of soothing music, it’s often the soothing, soul-stirring notes of the bansuri that first reach our ears. And when it’s bansuri, one name rises above all — legendary flautist, Padma ...

Flautist Pandit Nityanand Haldipur, in Kolkata for a music conference, speaks to Tathagata Ray Chowdhury about his music, his gurus Pandit Pannalal Ghosh and Annapurna Devi, and the former’s ...

With Reshma Shetty portraying five pivotal women and Vikas Rawat embodying the bansuri, the play brings the maestro’s life and music to the stage The special and unusual feature of the musical play ...

In Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, the bamboo bansuri is more than a musical instrument—it is a living family craft. From melas and devotional gatherings to trained musicians seeking precise tuning, flutes ...

What was your initial reaction when you heard your name for Grammy? Initially, we thought we might get it because big names like Ustad Zakir Hussain, Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer were part of it. When ...

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 ...

Despite his busy schedule as a jazz saxophonist and instructor in the U.S., Carl Clements has always “loved visiting Mumbai”, more so for his one-on-one bansuri lessons from Nityanand Haldipur, who ...