Veena player Balachander has bridged the North-South gap in his own way. He remodelled the Carnatic instrument in order to play dhrupad music with it. Not many know that classical musician S ...
Classical musician S Balachander modified the popular Carnatic Saraswati Veena to create the Chandra Veena. The five-foot long instrument weighing 62 kg, aids the easy performance of Hindustani ...
The veena assumes the personality of its player, the idiosyncrasies included, says Anuradha Mahesh. “If you are enthusiastic, your veena would be too, if you are a slacker, your veena would be ditto,” ...
Jayanthi Kumaresh will be receiving the award in Chennai this week More than for myself, I’m really happy that the veena is being recognised and celebrated,” says Jayanthi, who adds that the level of ...
HYDERABAD: “I am looking forward to reaching to the younger audiences and making them identify with our national instrument Saraswati Veena as something that is so traditional and still so pertinent ...
This musical instrument is so ancient that it can be called India’s wealth. Yet, except the BBC, nobody is documenting its sound or legendary practitioners, Jayanthi Kumaresh tells Shailaja Khanna Dr ...
BENGALURU: Veena, the instrument of Goddess Saraswati, is meticulously hand-carved out of the wood of a jackfruit tree, which makes every veena unique. “Each veena has a story to tell,” says veena ...
Offering a one-of-a-kind experience for the classical music lovers of the city, veena maestros Baha’ud-din Dagar and D. Balakrishna will come together for a duet this Sunday. Balakrishna come together ...
Barely 40 kilometres from where a Haryana school principal was shot dead by a student on the weekend before this Rep­ublic Day, hundreds of spirited people gathered on a mission at two villages ...