Tag: music
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An American in Hyderabad: Life in India in the 1970s
An American in Hyderabad? You probably haven’t heard of the book and it is, we have to admit, a bit obscure. We discovered it while browsing Amazon for books on Hyderabad and it piqued our interest. We wanted to know more about the book and its author and a Google search revealed some details. The…
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Must-Read Books on Hindustani Classical Music
Calcutta-based Rebanta Gupta, who loves Hindustani classical music, presents his essential reading list for fans of this particularly fascinating genre of music. My cousin Sharanya seems to have always harboured an antipathy towards Hindustani classical music since his childhood. When he was five or six, he once saw me practicing my vocal lessons one evening…