Meet ‘Hathaani’, a robotic violinist created by the Tiruchi-born engineer-musician Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan. The name Hathaani reflects Raghavasimhan’s childhood passion for Carnatic violin and ...

Art speaks loudly even before it is taught. One does not need formal training to understand and appreciate it. While music, in particular, has transcended cultu ...

Award-winning violinist Ambi Subramaniam was honored in Russia at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, inspiring a new generation with his innovative fusion of Indian and Western classical music Violinist Ambi ...

He's performed with George Harrison, Yehudi Menuhin; taken the Carnatic violin around the world; created a new formula for music. We must try new things,he says He was only six when he performed live ...

When Carnatic violinist brothers Ganesh and Kumaresh get together for a concert, they set the house on fire with their rhythm and melody. They adhere strictly to the classicism and yet they are ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. From Carnatic violin duos to reinvestigations of Elizabethan poetry, this week’s ...

N Rajam is surprised that you see a quartet of women violinists from across three generations of a family as an inspirational saga of feminist triumph. “Really? Things have changed now, no?” she asks, ...