People sometimes fall in love at first sight — but Jyoti Hegde fell in love at first sound. The renowned Rudra Veena player, who performed at a recent music festival at NCPA in Mumbai before taking to ...

Originating in northern India, it is named after Rudra, the fierce form of Shiva. It is believed that Ravana built and played this veena to pay homage to Shiva and named it after him.

Swami D R Parvatikar (1916-1990) was a Haridasa, great Rudra Veena player and a composer. He had created ‘Dathatreya Veena’ and has published a number of compositions in Hindustani style and spent his ...

To surrender to the notes of the rudra veena can be like experiencing some magical mind coolant, of entering a zone where extrinsic sound blends into an inner silence. Kolkata-based German musician ...

The Rudra Veena, an ancient and almost forgotten Indian musical instrument, is believed to have been created by Lord Shiva while contemplating the perfect beauty of his consort Parvati. Its ...

Kalabharati, the cultural wing of Karnataka Sangha, celebrates International Women's Day every year by organising a special programme and this year it will feature Radhika Umdekar Budhkar a musician ...

Music was alien to Jyoti Hegde until she stepped into college. The moment she listened to it, it grew on her. But when the music from Rudra Veena fell onto her ears, the passion for music came like a ...

Instrument — few who wield it can evoke its true beauty in the most charming way. But Ustad Bahauddin Dagar, a 20th-generation maestro, does so with poise and meticulous command. In 2012, he was ...

What drew you to India and its classical music? I arrived in India in the ’90s. At the time, I was studying at university, ...