New York DJ, drummer and electric-tabla player Karsh Kale has a modest goal. He wants to make Indian classical music part of the contemporary pop vernacular in the US. Releasing his own solo ...

Tabla player Salar Nader performs with the Third Coast Percussion ensemble at the Nimoy Theatre in Westwood on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. The group played several pieces, including Zakir Hussain's ...

Tabla maestro Anuradha Pal on her many struggles in being a female in a male dominated field where there was no precedent Ace tabla maestro, multi percussionist, composer and educator Anuradha Pal is ...

Spaced against the backdrop of the Gateway of India, its courtyard shimmered with diyas (lamps) flowing along serpent-like lines all along the ramp at Dior’s Fall show held in Mumbai. And to match, a ...

As government festivities for the 75th year of India’s Independence move to a crescendo, some Hindustani musicians have thought it an opportune moment to demonstrate their nationalistic fervour by ...

Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain has left behind such a huge legacy with his “eternally dancing fingers” that his music is permanently housed in every music lover’s sensibilities. There is something ...

Lord Krishna, Hinduism’s compassionate god of divine love, is often portrayed with a flute in hand. Perhaps that has something to do with the story that when he cut a large drum in half, producing two ...