Desi News Articles

My Lunch with a Legend

By MOHAMED KHAKI I was in Kolkata on Republic Day 2019 when the Padma awards were announced. Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee was...

Music That Tugs At Heartstrings

By SAMIDHA JOGLEKAR During the long and anxious months of quarantine through the pandemic, music was a reliable companion. In...

Making Instruments Sing

By SAMIDHA JOGLEKAR I have long contemplated the human voice for its potential as a musical instrument. According to the...

Two Torchbearers of Raag Music in Concert

By MOHAMED KHAKI In his online article, The scientific mystery of why humans love music, Brian Reznick writes, “From an...

A Close Encounter of the Exhilarating Kind

By SUJIT SEN  My annual visits to Kolkata, the “City of Joy”, are always pleasurable as I immerse myself in...

Sarod Master Steve Oda In His Guru’s Footsteps

By MOHAMED KHAKI Just a few months after immigrating to Canada in 1976, I attended my first live concert, a...

Blue Planet: Linking Music to Environment

By MOHAMED KHAKI Raag-Mala Toronto is partnering with First Edition Arts (FEA) to present Blue Planet, a four-month digital series...

I Won’t Let The Virus Infect My Music

By ANDREW KAY I’m sure that we all have the same thought in our heads…when will this pandemic finally be...