What connects the martial prowess of the tenth Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, to the peaceful solitude of Rabindranath Tagore? The answer lies in the sound of an instrument named esraj. Hosted by ...

Siddhartha Tagore from MATI has collected about 200 rare instruments over the last six years. “All the students of music who are in the city should visit the exhibition,” said renowned artist Jatin ...

The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is holding a two-day festival to showcase rare Indian classic musical instruments like the vichitra veena and esraj. The Saz-e-Bahar: Festival of ...

In the world of Indian classical music, some instruments arrive with thunderous fanfare, others slip quietly into history, reshaping it in the process. The esraj belongs to the latter kind. Neither ...

'Esraj,' sibling of 'dilruba' (literally meaning "robber of the heart") and 'sarangi' (evocative of a "hundred colours"), is an instrument that possesses the ability to pull at the strings of the ...