Among the innumerable musical instruments of the world, the Indian veena stands as an instrument with an ancient past, dating back to the Rig Veda age (3500 – 2500 BC). Certainly, it occupies the ...

Picturise a concert hall filled with listeners maintaining pin-drop silence. A round of speedy kalpanaswaras are being rendered on the veena with some rigorous meetus and it is almost time for the ...

The Hindu goddess Saraswati, symbolic of learning, wisdom and the arts, is often depicted playing the South Indian veena, an instrument of the lute family. In this program, featuring veena player ...

Among the innumerable musical instruments of the world, the Indian Veena, stands as an instrument, with a hoary past, harking back to the Rig Veda age, (3500 - 2500 B.C.). Certainly, it occupied the ...

GUWAHATI: A well-known Tripura instrumentalist has developed a modified guitar with gourd resonance, the first such guitar ...

For 83-year-old veena exponent Padmavathy Ananthagopalan, not a day passes without playing the instrument. She starts her day with classes at 6am and doesn’t rest till the evening. But, nothing tires ...

Every day, N Thamilmani walks from his home, passing a tree, a coconut vendor, one or two ambling cows and his cousin’s house, to take a narrow passageway to his workshop. His workshop, in the heart ...

The veena assumes the personality of its player, the idiosyncrasies included, says Anuradha Mahesh. “If you are enthusiastic, your veena would be too, if you are a slacker, your veena would be ditto,” ...

Coming from a classically trained background, Srivani has been playing the veena since the age of seven and had picked up the minute details quite early — within a first few months of training, much ...

The winner of the popular singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs will receive a special gift from the Mangeshkar family - a pure silver 'Veena' instrument. Usha Mangeshkar, a member of the ...