Konark Wheel serves as backdrop of PM Modi's welcome handshake with G20 leadersPrime Minister Modi reached Bharat Mandapam this morning ahead of the two-day meeting of the top world leaders. He was accompanied by Exter...
Indian documentaries, up on our watch listQuality documentaries, from Gautam Ghose's 1989 documentary on the life of shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan Sang-e-Meel Se Mulaqat (Meeting a...
Bismillah Khan death Anniversary: Did you know Shehnai maestro also acted in a film?Bismillah Khan, most popularly known as Ustad Bismillah Khan, was one of the most acclaimed musicians India has ever produced. The Bharat R...
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Google celebrates India's musical legacy on 74th Independence Day with a colourful doodleThe doodle showed musical instruments like tutari, shehnai, dhol, veena, sarangi and bansuri.
Five of Ustad Bismillah Khan's shehnais stolen from his son Kazim Hussain's homeThe Bharat Ratna awardee's family has been demanding for a museum to preserve his memorabilia since his death in 2006.
Shehnai exponent Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan diesSuffering from kidney related problems, he was hospitalised for the past few days and breathed his last this morning, family members said.
Phool Walon ki Sair celebrates harmony and diversity in the country’s capitalUsually held in November every year, Phoolwalon ki Sair still follows the traditional format starting with a mela or fair for the local peo...
Feel scared over political atmosphere: Bismillah Khan's son"We don't want to get involved in politics, for us all are the same. Sometimes I feel scared, though, the way political atmosphere is build...
Varanasi: Bismillah Khan's kin at Rahul Gandhi's roadshow, say nothing politicalA number of Khan's relatives welcomed Gandhi by playing shehnai at Beniabagh area of Varanasi, seen as some kind of support to Congress.
Rahul Gandhi hits back at Narendra Modi with last-day rally in VaranasiRahul's payback roadshow came as campaign frenzy gripped Varanasi, which will go to polls on May 12, reaches the last lap of the nine-phase...
Muslim electorate in Varanasi vexed at false promises by politiciansThe resting place of Ustad Bismillah Khan has been converted into an instrument of symbolic reaching out to Varanasi’s Muslim population.
Ustad Bismillah Khan's family refuses to be Narendra Modi's proposerAffaq Haider said he and his father never refuse any invitation for a cultural programme for any political party including BJP but won't le...
Suddenly, political parties discover Ustad Bismillah KhanA group of BJP workers and Narendra Modi supporters went to Khan's grave at Fatman to pay tributes on his 101st birth anniversary.
Family still waiting for Bismillah Khan's mausoleumThe promise to make a mausoleum and monument in the Shehnai player Bharat Ratna Bismillah Khan's memory remains unfulfilled.
- Shehnai loses its master
Legendary Shehnai exponent Ustad Bismillah Khan, who brought the instrument to the centrestage of Indian classical music, died of cardiac a...
- Bismillah Khan dead
Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan died of cardiac arrest in the wee hours on Monday.