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    Book Review | What It Takes To be an Imperfect MusicianBooks and Art
    Book Review | What It Takes To be an Imperfect Musician

    The book starts with Baba reminiscing about his early days, how he ran away from home to learn music, in Kolkata, his...

    24 Jan 2026 12:30 PM IST

    Book Review | Arun Kashalkar And The Wondrous World Of KhayalsBooks and Art
    Book Review | Arun Kashalkar And The Wondrous World Of Khayals

    There are detailed discussions on compositions, which can be irrelevant to the non-singer, but Ramanan tries earnestly...

    15 Nov 2025 8:21 PM IST

    Book Review | Refreshing Portrait of a Cult Figure in Carnatic MusicBooks and Art
    Book Review | Refreshing Portrait of a Cult Figure in Carnatic Music

    Through the book Sanjay comes across as a very hard-working sincere musician who is intelligent enough to reinvent...

    24 May 2025 12:39 PM IST

    Book Review | A refreshingly original fiction on power of ragasLifestyle
    Book Review | A refreshingly original fiction on power of ragas

    Very few performing musicians have ventured into the writing space, and that too, fiction. Dharwad based Pravin...

    4 Jun 2023 12:39 AM IST

    Shailaja Khanna | Surprise! Indian classical music now has young earsOpinion
    Shailaja Khanna | Surprise! Indian classical music now has young ears

    Post pandemic, auditoriums hosting classical music and dance performances have a changed look. Instead of the largely...

    27 May 2023 9:24 PM IST

    Zakir Hussain performs at the Kolkata stage. Credit: Shiladitya ChattorajOpinion
    Shailaja Khanna | Are musicians today losing confidence in desi...

    Attending a beautifully organised music festival of young bands from Asean countries held with the backdrop of the...

    15 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Lighting of diyas marks Diwali.Opinion
    Shailaja Khanna | The many moods & myths of Diwali

    After two long years, Diwali was celebrated with aplomb in most parts of India. With some, there was guilt at...

    30 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Shailaja Khanna | Abhangs, ‘secular’ food for the soul

    Growing up in India in the 1970s, one was made acutely aware of regional differences constantly. When one got into a...

    30 July 2022 11:41 PM IST

    The Sankat Mochan Hanuman temple in Kashi, said to have been established by Goswami Tulsidas himself in the sixteenth century, maintains the tradition of pleasing Lord Hanuman through music. (Twitter)Opinion
    Shailaja Khanna | What makes this festival in Kashi a treat for the...

    Performing at the temple is not easy — the recitals are interrupted by temple rituals at midnight and the break of...

    15 May 2022 12:13 AM IST

    Banni Bai. (By Arrangement)Opinion
    Shailaja Khanna | Timeless ebullience and other musical secrets

    This is the fascinating story of the origins of dance; a story that was preserved in stone and text over the centuries

    10 April 2022 1:44 AM IST

    Truly, the inspiration a musician gets seeing another listening intently makes for an inspired rendition. (Representational image/ Twitter)Opinion
    Shailaja Khanna | My first brush with magical Marghazi

    Realising that literally life stops for several hundred musicians of all types during these 30 days was awe inspiring

    27 Feb 2022 2:15 AM IST

    Crafting a Future: Stories of Indian Textiles and Sustainable Practices By Archana Shah. (Amazon)Lifestyle
    Book review | Scholarly tribute to our artisans and their textiles

    The section on fashion links the relevance of the hand crafted tradition to environmental concerns and sustainability

    2 Jan 2022 11:53 AM IST

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