It is that time of the year in Chennai when the city goes Carnatic. The December event, popularly called the Margazhi music season after the Tamil month, is only four years from completing a century.

ALAPPUZHA: Musician Manakkala Gopalakrishnan is on a mission to enrich the Malayalam language by adapting famous poems into Carnatic music. The Pathanamthitta resident has already rendered the works ...

In a hall resonant with reverence, rare echoes from the bygone era of Carnatic music came alive. At Narada Gana Sabha, in the presence of Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti, veteran Carnatic vocalist Trichur V ...

At a modest house in Plymouth, the best veena player in North America goes about her busy schedule. Amid teaching a select set of students and organizing her global concert itinerary — including a ...

She says raag, taal and gamak. He says ragam, talam and gamakam. But when Kaushiki Chakraborty and Ambi Subramaniam come together onstage they converse only in one language — music. Whether it’s for ...

For decades, our city has quietly nurtured an eclectic but deeply committed community of classical musicians — artistes who straddle carnatic, hindustani, folk traditions and increasingly, ...

Meet ‘Hathaani’, a robotic violinist created by the Tiruchi-born engineer-musician Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan. The name Hathaani reflects Raghavasimhan’s childhood passion for Carnatic violin and ...