Lord Krishna, Hinduism’s compassionate god of divine love, is often portrayed with a flute in hand. Perhaps that has something to do with the story that when he cut a large drum in half, producing two ...

SINGAPORE - English publication tabla!, which caters to Singapore’s Indian community, officially relaunched its website on Nov 19 with the goal of bringing together and engaging with community leaders ...

Low-dollar shipments from overseas are about to get more expensive. The days are ticking down until the de minimis exemption for customs duties expires as part of President Trump’s global tariff ...

Sijya, the South Asian composer, producer, and graphic artist, has announced the forthcoming EP, Leather & Brass, marking her first release for new label One Little Independent Records. Unlike the ...

The tabla, a vital Indian percussion instrument, features two drums played with intricate techniques. Distinct schools, known as gharanas, have emerged, each emphasizing unique techniques and tonal ...

In the next segment of our series on tabla accompaniment to instrumental music, we will listen to some tracks that feature instrumental versions of the thumri and dadra forms. Instrumentalists prefer ...

Zakir Hussain, an internationally renowned tabla player and composer who helped integrate Indian classical sound into Western music, has died at age 73. Hussain died Sunday afternoon in San Francisco ...

The tabla master Zakir Hussain died yesterday. He shaped modern world music with the Indian hand drum that has a unique sound that dating back centuries. Hussain's talents bridged cultures and genres, ...

In Islamic tradition, the father of a newborn is expected to recite the adhan, or call to prayer, in his child’s right ear, so that the first sounds the baby hears upon entering this world are ...

How great was Zakir Hussain? The fact that the tabla maestro has been taken from our midst at the fag end of the year in which he became the first Indian to win three Grammy Awards in one night says ...