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Sagar Ram and ensemble opened the festival at Jaswant Thada You do not have to be religious to connect with the sacred. If you agree, you’ve probably had the chance to listen to deeply-felt music under an open sky. The Sacred Spirit Festival held recently at venues in and around the picturesque Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur,…
In a way, it is a transaction between two terminals. Arriving at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, the planeloads of white-clad pilgrims, preparing for the visit to Mecca, follow a distinct route that is largely closed to non-Muslims. In a parallel trajectory, visitors to the airport’s Western Hajj Terminal enter an entirely different…
Watch: In conversation with Maati Baani | Notes & Chords | Video Credit: The Hindu In this episode of Notes & Chords, we speak to a Maati Baani, a collaborative musical platform that blends the vibrant and colourful world of Indian folk music with the rhythms of funk and blues. Created in 2012, Maati Baani…
JA Jayanth (flute) and Nandini Shankar (violin) explored the beautyr of ragas in their essays. | Photo Credit: AKHILA EASWARAN To enjoy and appreciate a Hindustani-Carnatic jugalbandhi, a rasika should almost become a part of both schools’ individual and integrated styles. Here, more than the sahitya or lyrics, what matters are the music, raga, phrases…
Panellists at the ‘Women Writing Women’ session at the Dehradun Literature Festival 2024. Introspections around sexuality, female agency, patriarchy and bodily autonomy became a leitmotif of sorts in three all-female panel discussions at the recently concluded sixth edition of the Dehradun Literature Festival. Spread over three days in the mist-swathed capital of Uttarakhand, the festival…
