Malini Awasthi notes a revival of folk music. These songs are integral to Indian culture. She has worked to popularize folk music. Awasthi overcame vulgar songs to establish herself. She sings about ...

A concert of Indian folk music and dance was held at In the Net, Palmyra on Sunday, September 22. The event featured renown Indian singer Falguni Pathak and vendors selling Indian street food, ...

Bollywood has always been a melting pot of cultures, especially when it comes to music. Over the decades, Hindi cinema has ...

She is a little girl lost behind a battered big-bellied guitar. Her dusky face, framed by a cascade of raven hair that spills across her shoulders and down toher waist, seems frozen in mournful repose ...

Indian folk singer Gopal Maurya (centre) performing in his village in eastern state of Bihar in August 2019. Picture courtsey The Bidesia Project CHENNAI, India, July 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...

Some songs don’t just play; they take you back. To a school auditorium echoing with claps, the smell of chalk dust, or the nervous excitement before a performance. Whether it was a dance competition, ...

NEW DELHI: Ahead of Bihar’s Chhath festival, Indian Railways has introduced a unique arrangement of playing popular folk songs dedicated to the Chhath festival at over 100 prominent stations across ...