With his signature gold chains, dark glasses, cap, and larger-than-life personality, Bappi Lahiri became as iconic visually as he was musically.

The first, Contemporary Bengali Choir, was also produced by Armeen Musa, introducing modern Bengali choral textures to the global production community.

Baul music -- the wandering, mystical sound of Bengal’s soil -- has long belonged to akhras, village courtyards and spiritual gatherings. Now, it is travelling somewhere unexpected: into the laptops ...

Rangpur’s native language survives in the speech of elders and Bhawaiya songs, but faces extinction under 'modern pressures' ...

A campaign to save a tamarind tree has received widespread support from residents of the Bagha Jatin neighbourhood and beyond ...

Today on British Invasion — the column that talks about both Mr. Blobby and The Beatles in the same breath — I hope to start a series exploring the solo careers of all four Beatles ...

Bangladeshi composer Armeen Musa has announced the global release of Bangali Folk Vocals (Baul), a new vocal sample collection now available on the music production platform Splice. Produced in ...

New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) Describing the Ol Chiki script as a "powerful symbol" of the Santhali identity, President Droupadi Murmu on Monday said efforts should be made to preserve and promote this cent ...

The Carnatic vocalist and public intellectual argues that India must defend its founding symbols and also reimagine their ...

Nostalgia. Identity. Homecoming. If we could sum up our experience of the latest edition of Serendipity Arts Festival in just ...

There is a popular expression in Malayalam: when the bull lifts its tail, one is certain what will follow. It is a rustic metaphor, blunt yet precise, used to describe events whose consequences are ...

Last week, I was pleasantly surprised to be invited to a play titled ‘After Ayodhya: Its Conscience and Man’, performed by Pearly Dew Higher Secondary School in collaboration with Forever Young and ...