At The “Bhavan”

The morning after I found myself staring at the last water hole left in the Sahara and much like moths to a flame, all the beasts were jockeying for position and the last remaining drops of the life giving liquid. I am talking metaphorically of course. What I am describing here was the sight at [...]

Our First Concert at Manchester.

Hey Everyone!
I’m back as promised with the details of the tour. I will break up this up into 4 or 5 different posts detailing each concert separately.
It was the evening of the 11th of September, as we boarded the Emirates flight from Kolkata to Dubai onto London, Heathrow. I was in my best travel attire [...]

Back To Basics…

In sticking with evening ragas, I came across Yaman today. You know, we often to over look the beauty that is there in the basics. As anyone who has ever learned any form of Hindustani classical music knows, Yaman is the raaga that is used to ease the new student in. And it is this [...]

Another Day, Another Raaga…..

Hey Everybody out there,sorry for the 2 DAY hiatus. I know I was supposed to post on a daily basis but renovation is really taking  its toll on my schedule. Anyways ,I moved on to the next raags on mu practice list and it just happened to be on of my favorites, namely Naiki Kanada.
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Day 2, A little shaky…..

It was Hameer day today just as I had promised it would be but, morning brought with it a lot of unexpected detours , making it necessary for me to combine my first 2 practice session into a double session at 3 in the afternoon!
Now on to Hameer (click here to know [...]

T minus 24 days and counting…

With the Tour of England coming up in 24 days, its time for me to get down to some serious practice.
My regime consists of mostly evening and night ragas like Bihag, Hameer, Yaman, Naiki Kanada etc to name some of them.
I have decided to break up my practice into 3 sessions of one hour [...]