NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Every day, when his father, Ustad Alla Rakha would wake him up at 3 a.m. for lessons, the first thing he would say was, “You mustn’t try to be a master. Just be a good student, and ...
The first time I knew myself to be in the presence of greatness was while sitting under a shamiana in New Delhi's Modern School sometime in the last quarter of 1974. I had recently joined college and ...
Taufiq Qureshi, one of India’s most inventive percussionists, has built a career on rhythm that bridges tradition and innovation. Son of tabla legend Ustad Alla Rakha and younger brother of Ustad ...
KUWAIT CITY, Aug 13: In a major crackdown on residency trafficking, the General Department of Residence Affairs Investigations has arrested a Pakistani national and several others accused of issuing ...
It’s not every day that the tabla and the djembe combine to produce an album. That’s exactly what percussionists Bickram Ghosh and Taufiq Qureshi did recently with RamTa, their latest collection of ...
HYDERABAD: The sound of her jingling ghungroos put us all in a deep trance as she gracefully showed us her hasthaks (hand movements), energetically tapped her feet, and dreamily whirled — she was ...
'The security guards at the stadium did not recognise him. He kept saying he was Zakir Hussain but they did not permit him to enter.' 'Zakir bhai was calm and told me it is not their fault. They were ...
On March 9, 1951 in a hospital in Bombay, a son was born to Bavi Begum. After two days, when she brought the baby home to their one-room tenement, she asked her husband to recite the call to prayer ...
Zakir Hussain was the eldest son of legendary tabla maestro Ustad Alla Rakha. Zakir Hussain, born on March 9, 1951, in Mumbai, was a virtuoso tabla player who made a mark on the global level. As the ...
New York: Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain was laid to rest in San Francisco on Thursday. Hussain, one of the world’s most accomplished percussionists, died at a San Francisco hospital on Monday due to ...
Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty with Zakir Hussain on the sidelines of a programme in Kolkata many years ago Photographs courtesy: Shrutinandan Hindustani classical vocalist Ajoy Chakrabarty shared a ...
Ustad Zakir Hussain (Illustration: Varani Sahu) The Taj Mahal tea campaign featuring Zakir Hussain was almost an accident. We (Dharen Chadha, our planning director, and I) were pretty clear that we ...
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