For nearly six decades, the resonant sounds of the ghatam have travelled with Tripunithura N Radhakrishnan across concert halls in India and around the world. Beginning his musical journey at a young ...

Some musical performances are so beautiful that they have the power to calm one’s mind. And the Internet is filled with videos that perfectly fit that description. One such clip featuring a man ...

Listening to ghatam player Vikku Vinayakram accompanying M.S. Subbulakshmi in a concert in the United Nations (UN), noted Tamil writer Kothamangalam Subbu said music emanating from the sand of Tamil ...

Sukanya Ramgopal, India's first female ghatam artist, defied gender norms to master the traditionally male-dominated instrument. Despite facing sexism from male musicians and event organizers, she ...

In a government hospital ward in Bengaluru, as the terrible tragedies of the Covid pandemic played out around her, Sumana Chandrashekar was battling for her life. Yet, even in those lonely hours ...

Ryuichiro Sakan, a Japanese ghatam practitioner, was the latest visitor to Manamadurai, famous for ghatam making, to choose his personal choice of the instrument. Sakan was one of the ghatam artistes, ...

Manohar Gurung (Bobby) is the first Ghatam (earth pot) player in Nepal. He went all the way to Chennai, India and learned the art of playing ghatam at Srijaya Ganesh Tala Vadya Vidyalaya. His guru was ...

Like everything else in the pandemic, Carnatic music too has pivoted to a more digital way of being. An on-demand streaming of a ghatam ensemble this weekend continues this trend. Part of an online ...

The musician has been using his time during the lockdown to experiment with ghatam and has named his venture, Layanubhava. The video of ghatam artiste Vazhapally R Krishnakumar’s performance of the ...

I must tell you about this incredible woman, Meenakshi. A matriarch of the household and in a way of the entire village, Meenakshi was a woman of medium height with broad shoulders and a wide forehead ...

For nearly six decades, the resonant sounds of the ghatam have travelled with Tripunithura N Radhakrishnan across concert halls in India and around the world. Beginning his musical journey at a young ...