Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The setting for the Jodhpur Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF) is a 15th-century hilltop fort — one ...
Rajasthani folk artists Gafruddin Mewati Jogi and Taga Ram Bheel were on Sunday announced as recipients of the Padma Shri ...
Backed by a gritty oral narrative passed on from one generation to another, folk musicians around the world have been providing healing and happiness to society for centuries through their ...
The Desert KATS from Barmer, Rajasthan enchant with Rajasthani folk melodies. They are brilliant musicians and singers from the Langa community in western Rajasthan. The trio (they are a quartet) were ...
Ja ja re apne mandirva, a classical bandish (a melodic composition), is once again on the lips of Indian music enthusiasts, almost 300 years after it was written and composed by Sadarang aka Naimat ...
There are those who train to be musicians. Then there are those who seem to be just born with it, to whom musical genius comes naturally. Rajasthani folk artiste Asin Khan Langa (35) seems to belong ...
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Echoes across cultures: Indian folk instruments and their global counterparts
Music has always been a universal language, with cultures across the world developing unique instruments that reflect their ...
The day I met Kasam Khan Langa, it was late winter. There was not a rain cloud in sight and yet, when he sang out “Aayo aayo sawan aayo, ghar aayo balam” to the accompaniment of the sarangi, dholak ...
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