For most people in the West, classical Indian raga music means one instrument, the sitar, and one player, Ravi Shankar. Quite why Shankar came to be considered the greatest modern sitar player over ...

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For legions of aspiring rasikas, Raga Malkauns is Ustad Bismillah Khan's celebratory shehnai playing at weddings - until they are exposed to Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar's revelation of the raga. AHMEDABAD: ...

Bismillah Khan, who died yesterday at Varanasi aged 90, was widely regarded in India as an Ustad (musical genius), and his playing of the shehnai is considered to represent all that is best about ...

Bismillah Khan mirrored a mosaic where both Islam and Hinduism sat comfortably. Every child in north India learns about Benares and Bismillah Khan as soon as he or she leaves the pram. I don't know ...

“One listens to classical music for inner peace and not for entertainment,” said renowned classical vocalist and shehnai artist Pandit S. Ballesh, a disciple of the world famous shehnai maestro and ...

Google Doodle honours Bismillah Khan on his birth anniversary. New Delhi, Mar 21: Indian musician Ustad Bismillah Khan, the famous shehnai player, has been honoured by Google on his 102nd birth ...

For most people in the West, classical Indian raga music means one instrument, the sitar, and one player, Ravi Shankar. Quite why Shankar came to be considered the greatest modern sitar player over ...

Qamruddin Khan (Bismillah Khan), shehnai player: born Dumraon, India 21 March 1916; married (five sons, three daughters); died Varanasi, India 21 August 2006. It is given to very few musicians that ...