1. Allah and Om
(Articles/Editorials)

Tags: [allah, Om, Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Alauddin Khan, Ustad Bismillah Khan]  ...

2. Allah and Om
(Articles/Editorials)

Ustad Bismillah Khan purified his shehnai with Ganga jal and a maulvi said he saw Allah during Pandit Jasraj’s bhajan at a concert in Pakistan. Sunita Budhiraja looks at music as the Great Unifier. It ...

3. Jai Maa! Har Har Gange!!
(Articles/Editorials)

... THE ACT OF BATHING IN THE RIVER, WHEN PERFORMED WITH "FAITH" CAN GIVE ULTIMATE MOKSHA. EVERY l2 YEARS, THE KUMBH MELA TAKES PLACE IN THE CITIES OF ALLAHABAD, UJJAIN, HARIDWAR AND NASIK. IT IS BELIEVED ...

4. Dipawali 2009 Wizards
(up_coming_events/Dipawali Artists)

...  Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in Allahabad in 1938 into a non musical family. His father was a wrestler. His mother died when he was very young. Hariprasad had to learn music almost in secret, scared ...

5. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
(up_coming_events/Dipawali Artists)

... Chaurasia was born in Allahabad in 1938 into a non musical family. His father was a wrestler. His mother died when he was very young. Hariprasad had to learn music almost in secret, scared of the father ...

6. Reliving romance and history through Azmi’s pen
(Articles/Book Review)

... demands fulfilled. He was then expelled from the seminary he had studied at. He then mastered Arabic, Persian and Urdu in Lucknow and Allahbad. His leadership qualities and poetry were noticed by leading ...

7. Jai Ho!
(Articles/Editorials)

... classical traditions, and western influences. Born as A S Dileep Kumar in a musically family in Chennai on January 6, 1966, he changed his name to Allah Rakha Rahman after his family converted to Islam ...

8. Bharat Ratna Bismillah Khan
(Articles/Editorials)

... of Saraswati. “Music, sur, namaaz – they are all the same thing. We can reach allah in different ways. Unless a musician strives to meet God, he will only have kalaa (art) but no assar (mystical union), ...