Pune: The ‘Namacha Gajar’ programme, an annual celebration of the warkari sect’s devotional poetry, returns for its eighth edition, aiming to transport audiences on a transcendent journey through the ...

A rain-washed dusk slowly settles over the street as the first strains of the ‘Abhangs’ begin to be heard. Slowly at first. Then the pitch rises to the accompaniment of clanging ‘Jalras’ and temple ...

Chennaiites have taken to vibrant devotional songs from Maharashtra popularised by a few Carnatic musicians. CHENNAI: Twenty years ago, when Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sairam decided to sing a couple of ...

For a college band that started out of Mumbai’s Kishinchand Chellaram (KC) College as an idea in 2014 and was formed a year later, Abhanga Repost has certainly come a long way. Now that the city band ...

Hundreds and thousands of film songs in more than a dozen languages, ghazals, patriotic songs and also ‘bhav geet’, the quintessential semi-classical, non-filmi songs in Marathi, Lata Mangeshkar sang ...

The sisters, Ranjani-Gayatri, who will receive the Sanskriti Award 2008 in New Delhi on Friday, are known in Carnatic circles for their devout rendering of Marathi abhangs (bhajans) by Sant Tukaram ...

The houseful audience at the Sringeri Pravachana Mandiram, Chennai, on Saturday last had the rare experience of being transported to a remote Maharashtra village. On the stage was Tukaram Ganapathi ...

PUNE A state-level competition has been organised by a private organisation along with the state prison department wherein inmates serving sentences for various offences in jails across Maharashtra ...