From its opening flourish, Hobey Hobey Heleyoy (‘Come Sing and Dance’) with its blend of Punjabi and Somali ingredients, the pretty much unerring plus ça change philosophical logic of Somali Party Southall is bracing.
18 December 2012
Games, politics and personal and national identity are inseparably intertwined in Satinder Chohan’s new play Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi.
18 December 2012
Around the time that I was delivering the final drop-ins for my India chapters in the Europe, Asia & Pacific volume for what would be the third and final edition of the Rough Guide to World Music, there was a bloom of new talent working in East-West fusion forms emerging.
18 December 2012
The Great British Gharana was a showcase of budding and established performers of Indian classical music living in the UK.
18 December 2012
The previous afternoon Swapan Chaudhuri, the tabla-player of choice for the sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan (1922–2009) in his last… Read More
18 December 2012
Darbar founder Sandeep Virdee has been outspoken in his desire to present lesser-known talents each year. ‘Unveiling Afternoon Ragas’ was hardly the most exciting title of this final day afternoon session, but what ensued definitely was.
18 December 2012
South Indian music has long-standing naming conventions not encountered in its Hindustani cousin in the north of the subcontinent.
18 December 2012
Darbar’s reputation as the most diverse, high-quality Indian music festival outside of India was upheld by its cracking first night. After a late start, Joydeep Ghosh took to the stage.
18 December 2012
How much of us is found in others? For visual artist, choreographer and performer Hetain Patel, his discoveries take to the philosophy of his childhood hero, martial artist Bruce Lee: “Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless like water.”
18 December 2012
Sanjoy Roy launches the first in a three-part series by speaking to the iconic choreographer herself and tracing the twists and turns in the Company’s stylistic vision.
18 December 2012
