For Haridas Vhatkar, tabla making won’t be the same again, as he mourns the passing away of his most celebrated customer, ...

Zakir Hussain was instrumental in shaping the way people perceived and accepted the tabla in the last six decades ...

Haridas Vhatkar, renowned as the 'Steinway of the tabla', dedicated his life to crafting exquisite tablas for the legendary Ustad Zakir Hussain. Beginning in 1998 with Zakir's father, Haridas forged a ...

Zakir Hussain, a world-renowned tabla maestro, was described as a profound inspiration by fellow musician Shankar Mahadevan, ...

Hindustani classical music is unthinkable without the tabla ... festivities. Art critic and cultural historian Geet Sen wrote in Music in the Reign of Akbar, that the “Same instruments of ...

We were also fortunate to learn the art of simplicity from a legendary ... Amid the growing popularity of innovative electronic music instruments, tabla continues to hold its revered space because ...