Miscellaneous

I spoke to veteran journalist Ranjani Govind on how I conceived the idea of bringing to life the stories of migrants in my latest...

Ideas often evolve over time. When I saw pictures of one of the largest internal migrations during the pandemic in India it took me back...

The 'Wild Women' jugalbandhi program at Indian Music Experience Museum Bangalore with poet Arundhathi Subramaniam was such a special...

The Hindu writes about my upcoming jugalbandhi with Arundhathi Subramaniam. To read the article click here

Hanuman, also known as 'Anjaneya', is one of the most important personalities in the Ramayana. He stands as the prime example of a Bhakta...

“Was jazz inspired by Indian classical music?" Recently I did a lecture-demonstration on appreciating Indian classical music for visiting...

We continue our series " One song, Many renditions " with a Hindustani bandish "Charan Dhar Aayo" in raag Abhogi and carnatic composer...

What a delight it was to have Naresh Narasimhan architect and urban designer, as a guest speaker to my class at Ahmedabad University . If...

Check this out amma, my daughter thrusts her cell phone at me. The video clip playing is of a young woman narrating a poem. When I hear...

Carnatic composer Tyagaraja's songs mostly centred around Rama yet there are a few that focus on other deities such as "Giriraja Sutha"...

An Irish storyteller and an Indian classical musician brought to life the journey of an entrepreneur in story and song in Columbus, Ohio....

As a child growing up in India, I had the luxury of reading and listening to stories from Indian epics such as Mahabharatha and Ramayana....

The strains of raga Dhanyasi reverberates in my living room. I haven’t heard this raga in a long time. The singer is Ramnad Krishnan, one...

I was listening to a vintage recording of a padam in raga Saveri by stalwarts T.Brinda and T.Mukta recently. While the lyrics were...