Pandit Shivkumar Sharma: A Legend and His Music
By MOHAMED KHAKI Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, who passed away recently, is credited with raising the stature of the santoor from...
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...
Alvida, Didi
By MOHAMED KHAKI Lata Mangeshkar’s recent passing at the age of 92 was met with an outpouring of grief in...
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...
The Begum and I
By MOHAMED KHAKI Diwana banana hai to diwana bana de, varna taqdeer tamasha na bana de. One can only imagine...
On The Road With A Hindustani Classical Music Aficionado
By MOHAMED KHAKI Recently, I recalled a joke from many years ago: A man runs into an old friend whom...
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...
Suhana Safar is Forever
By MOHAMED KHAKI Mohammed Yusuf Khan was born in pre-independence India in Peshawar, the city that is now in Pakistan....
My Canadian Journey to Raag Sangeet
By SAMIDHA JOGLEKAR During a trip to Paris, France, in the Spring of 2011, I purchased a bookmark with a...
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