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    • Chennai music season 2025: The kutcheri where WhatsApp stole the spotlight

      Chennai December music festival, in an era where the music floats in the air but the phone screens glow brighter than the stage lights.

    • Is audience engagement key in Carnatic music? RaGa sisters Ranjani Gayatri explain why it's the future of Indian Classical

      Carnatic vocalists Ranjani and Gayatri on how there's a constant manthan in the Indian Classical space, and why you don't need to know the language or be immersed in the culture to appreciate the music.

    • ‘Hindustani music is not Brahmanical like Carnatic, which became so after 18th century’: Navayana publisher S Anand

      Anti-caste publisher S Anand on co-founding Navayana, re-printing the memoir of Adivasi leader-Olympic hockey player-Constituent Assembly member Jaipal Singh Munda, rejecting Carnatic music for Kabir songs & seeing Kabir through the prism of BR Ambedkar in his latest book 'The Notbook of Kabir'.

    • Bickram Ghosh: ‘With Zakir Hussain, the sun is gone; we’ve lost somebody who truly stood for something’

      Serendipity Arts Festival 2024: The unique selling point of the multidisciplinary arts festival is the River Raag, and this year, the first time in nine years of the festival, percussion set pieces by Carnatic legends BC Manjunath (mridangam) and Suresh Vaidyanathan (ghatam) regaled the audiences afloat on river Mandovi in Goa.

    • Sid Sriram's latest single 'The Heir' receives widespread acclaim on social media

      In this track, Sid Sriram, who penned the lyrics himself, delves into profound themes of freedom, truth, and existence.

    • Sid Sriram takes "Sidharth" World Tour to Australia

      His "Sidharth" World Tour has already seen sold-out shows across North America, the UK, and Europe

    • Sid Sriram returns to Coachella, entrancing audiences once more

      Highlights of Sid Sriram's performance included electrifying renditions of fan-favorite tracks including "Blue Spaces", "Do The Dance", "Dear Sahana", "Friendly Fire", "The Hard Way", each greeted with resounding applause and fervent cheers from the audience.

    • Sid Sriram set to wow audiences again at Coachella's second weekend on April 19

      During his performance last weekend, the trailblazer showcased tracks such as 'Do The Dance' and 'Dear Sahana' from his recent English album "Sidharth", leaving the audience spellbound and yearning for more.

    • TM Krishna award row: Annamalai, Zoho's Sridhar Vembu back Ranjani-Gayatri

      The Music Academy’s conferment of the Sangita Kalanidhi title on TM Krishna and the divide among the Carnatic music fraternity has now spread to other sections of the society and even stoked political reactions.

    • An award row shakes up a venerable Carnatic music institution

      The Music Academy’s conferment of the Sangita Kalanidhi title on TM Krishna and the divide among the Carnatic music fraternity has spread like wildfire on social media and even stoked political reactions. For Music Academy, an institution whose famed annual Conference held every December in Chennai was long treated as a great mark of recognition in Carnatic music, the boycotts – by an array of distinguished Carnatic musicians – suggest a rocky road ahead

    • Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath's son, mother perform Carnatic music on stage. Watch

    • Chennai December Music Festival 2022: What not to miss, and why it's the perfect platform to promote 'Destination Chennai'

    • Sushma Soma in her new concept album brings us Home to mother earth

    • Chennai’s Carnatic concert in the park for children is back

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