This Sunday (July 6) marks Ashadi Ekadashi, a major festival in Maharashtra and a significant day for the Warkari sect that culminates in a pilgrimage to the Vitthal temple in Pandharpur. To mark the ...

Pune: Music often joins hands with devotion. And when it does, it erases divides of language, musical genre, background and religion, says Carnatic vocalist Ranjani. She is talking about abhang, a ...

How do you communicate with God? Perhaps you chant the shlokas or hymns your grandmother taught you when you were little. Or you speak to Gods and Goddesses as if they are your best friends, sharing ...

Music is transcendental. While you completely immerse yourself in music, you are elevated above the conscious world, into a realm where you forget yourself and become one with the melody. Since almost ...

Days after Guillain-Barré syndrome wreaked havoc in Pune, with the city reporting at least 24 cases of the immunological nerve disorder, residents are now blaming Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for ...

On her new LP, “Daughter of a Temple,” Ganavya is the central vocalist, composer and community builder for 30 artists who constitute a who’s who in jazz and experimental music. By Marcus J. Moore ...

This year, on the auspicious eve of ‘ Ashadhi Ekadashi,’ experience a soulful evening with ‘ Bolava Vitthal,’ a celebration of soul-stirring Abhangs (devotional hymns dedicated to Lord Vitthal, a ...

At the centre of the tale is Malati, the eternal strongwoman who becomes an able sutradhar, trying to defy age-old patriarchy with courage. Swallowing the Sun stands out for its interesting cast of ...

‘Bolava Vitthal’, an evening of abhangs organised by Pancham Nishad to celebrate Ashadhi Ekadashi at Chowdiah Memorial Hall in Bengaluru, has become an inalienable part of the city’s musicscape . The ...

: The second evening of the 11th Annual Festival of Sufiana and Devotional Music "Samarpan" organised by the Bhubaneswar Music Circle and supported by the Odisha Tourism showcased different ...