Bismillah Khan, 90, a master of the Indian wind instrument called the shehnai, died Monday of a heart attack in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India. He had been in failing health for several months ...

History bears testimony to the fact that a number of musical instruments, which earlier on had originated from a particular country, were used later by the people of another geographical regions where ...

VARANASI, (IANS) – An application has been filed, seeking Geographical Indication (GI) certification tag for the shehnai, a musical instrument taken to its zenith by the renowned musician of Kashi, ...

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Varanasi/Old Bhojpur (Bihar): On a ragged piece of cardboard, in a disintegrating shop in Godhuliya, a particularly congested part of Varanasi, sits Mohammad Safi. In a city that was once home to ...

VARANASI: The stairs are crumbling to dust, the walls ravaged by the passage of time and just beyond flows the Ganga as if in eternal serenity. It was here that a young Bismillah Khan practiced for ...

CHENNAI: Tunes of the shehnai used in the interludes of the song Tum Tak from the film Raanjhnaa still linger in our minds and ears. In fact, the composer A R Rahman had used tunes from the instrument ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

CHAKWAL, Dec 31: A local Shehnai artist is gaining international and local acclaim as his videos are now available on YouTube and members of his troupe have performed in Coke studio. And it is all ...

Till it was pedestrianised a year ago, the pavement along Katra Pyare Lal in Chandni Chowk used to be the booking spot of Old Delhi’s shehnai players. This is where they have always waited for their ...

“He gave a purpose to my life by making the shehnai an inseparable part of it,” says Pt. Shailesh Bhagwat talking about his celebrated guru Ustad Bismillah Khan. “For 40 long years, I followed him ...