Tabla is a traditional percussion instrument belonging to the North Indian heritage. It is a part of North Indian classical music and has significant importance. It is an instrument that can be played ...

A tabla player and multi-percussionist, Anuradha Pal is a Mumbai-based musician trained by the late Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain. Pal went on to start two fusion bands; Stree Shakti is an ...

Over the past years there has been an increasing interest in tabla, an instrument with a long history, renowned performers such as Said Al Artist and many young people who learn to play it His whole ...

In order to spread the benefits of Tabla not only as music but as therapy also, a Tabla player from a region close to Kolkata has started a tabla Academy. In order to spread the benefits of Tabla not ...

Rhythm is claimed to be the forerunner of music about which men learnt during the early days of their sociological and cultural evolution. Before they discovered sur (musical notes) or invented saaz ...

Hindustani classical music is unthinkable without the tabla and its varying tempo of beats. In the devotional music of all three major religions (Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism) as well as Sufi and ...

Using the tabla, Anuradha Pal brings the emotions of the Ramayana, along with jugalbandis to highlight the interwoven traditions of storytelling and music from India’s heartland There is something ...

Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at a hospital in San Francisco.

At dusk, the narrow lanes of Dal Mandi in downtown Varanasi spring to life. Rows of shops in the northern Indian city offer colourful wares, from the famous Banarasi silk saris, costume jewellery and ...