Shehnai maestro Pandit Shailesh Bhagwat and sitar exponent Ustad Rafeeque Khan presenting a jugalbandhi at Palakkad on Monday ...

VARANASI, (IANS) – An application has been filed, seeking Geographical Indication (GI) certification tag for the shehnai, a musical instrument taken to its zenith by the renowned musician of Kashi, ...

VARANASI: The stairs are crumbling to dust, the walls ravaged by the passage of time and just beyond flows the Ganga as if in eternal serenity. It was here that a young Bismillah Khan practiced for ...

A controversy has erupted over the whereabouts of late Ustad Bismillah Khan's favourite shehnai, with his youngest son claiming that it has gone missing from their ancestral house here and police ...

As modernism continues to engulf the cultural essence of the subcontinent, there are some dedicated souls who act like a shield against the mindlessness which is taking us away from our cultural ...

CE speaks to shehnai maestro Pt Lokesh Anand about his musical journey, his evolving artistry, and his work in films such as Devara, Dhurandhar, and more Akshaye Khanna’s much-discussed walk in ...

'Russia Has Advantage': Trump STUNS Zelensky; Reveals 2,500 Ukrainian Troops 'Encircled' In Kursk U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that if not for his intervention, Ukrainian troops in Kursk ...

New Delhi: Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan was born as Qamaruddin Khan on 21st march, 1916 in a traditional Muslim family of musicians in Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, Dumraon - in present-day Bihar. He was ...

Qamruddin Khan (Bismillah Khan), shehnai player: born Dumraon, India 21 March 1916; married (five sons, three daughters); died Varanasi, India 21 August 2006. It is given to very few musicians that ...

CHAKWAL, Dec 31: A local Shehnai artist is gaining international and local acclaim as his videos are now available on YouTube and members of his troupe have performed in Coke studio. And it is all ...

Varanasi: A controversy has erupted over the whereabouts of late Ustad Bismillah Khan's favourite shehnai with his youngest son claiming that it has gone missing from their ancestral house here and ...