/Tag: Hindustani Music Muslim Mallikarjun Mansur Amitav Ghosh Vilayat Khan Begum Akhtar

THE MUSIC OF INDIA


The Hindu

I come from what, even by Indian standards, is a very large family. Counting only close relatives—parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, first cousins—they number in the region of fifty. While I was growing up, of this vast brood only one member ever willingly listened to a piece of music. I would have remained a music-illiterate myself, had [...]