PASADENA, Calif. — At an autumn concert in Southern California, instrumentalist and vocalist Sheela Bringi carefully adjusted the strings of her harp before dedicating the opening invocation to ...

This post was updated June 30 at 8:55 p.m. From a young age, I recall spending late nights at special family gatherings dancing to Bollywood songs, regardless of whether I understood them or not. As I ...

In his column “Mainstream & Margins,” Rishi Jeyamurthy ’28 tackles high-profile events and the overlooked stories reshaping the music industry. The globalization of contemporary media is important not ...

Indian classical Ragas can influence brain activity, enhancing attention and emotional regulation Raga Darbari improves focus, while Raga Jogiya helps manage emotional overwhelm and grief Therapeutic ...

Indian American composer Reena Esmail is not following in anyone’s footsteps but her own. Pushing boundaries in a male-dominated industry and armed with an attitude of creating your own lane, she has ...

"It's kind of like music is a miracle for us." Kiran and Nivi were practically destined to be performers. In fact, they learned how to sing before they could even talk. At age 2, both sisters were ...

Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected ...

George Harrison first heard Indian music while in utero. His mother Louise hoped the calming melodies of the Eastern music played on Radio India would help calm her rambunctious unborn son. However, ...

Ashwin Batish is an extraordinary sitarist and tabla player. He received training in the North Indian classical tradition from his father S.D. Batish and later created his own unique fusion of Indian ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

Sarathy Korwar mixes Indian classical music, jazz and hip-hop on political concept albums that take aim at cultural clichés. By Kate Hutchinson LONDON — Think of Indian music, and what springs to mind ...

The images carried on postage stamps are central in producing, projecting and experiencing the national community. From Mirabai of the Bhakti tradition to Hindi film playback singers and paintings of ...