Ken Hunt inquires about the influences that inform Arundhati Roy’s writing and activism and the continuing centrality of caste in India since B.R. Ambedkar wrote about it in 1936.
25 March 2015
Dhrupad and Shock of the New was the Darbar Festival’s North & South double billing for Saturday’s final evening performance. Representing the Hindustani Dhrupad… element was the Rudra vina player Jyoti Hegde, while Abhishek Raghuram represented the …Shock of the New.
19 December 2014
Quite when Prabha Atre had last performed on British shores was the source of stage-whispered conjecture in the audience. One pundit assured everyone within earshot that it had been 1974.
19 December 2014
The Bristol, UK-based Asian Arts Agency’s announcement that Kiran Ahluwalia was making her London concert debut at long last was a cause for genuine excitement.
15 September 2014
At the annual Alchemy celebration of things British and South Asian, Anoushka Shankar’s headlining appearance came touted as ‘A Special Show for Alchemy’.
23 June 2014
With over 10 per cent of India’s land mass, the western state of Rajasthan is the nation’s largest. City regions such as Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Udaipur and Bikaner are on the tourist trail and should kind kismet or grand design ever take you to Rajasthan, you will require reliable musical travelling companions.
23 June 2014
It is ten years since Ustad Vilayat Khan died but the eloquence of his playing lives on in his recordings and through his students. Ken Hunt and Dharambir Singh remember one of the great sitar players of his generation.
20 March 2014
She headlined at this year’s Darbar Festival and will soon be receiving the Sangita Kalanidhi, Carnatic music’s highest award; but this remarkable singer says that she almost drifted into music. Ken Hunt gives us the background.
16 December 2013
This energetic and engaging musician talks to Ken Hunt about his musical explorations since he first picked up a recorder at school in Bolton.
16 December 2013
Transposed Rhythm And The Saraswati Veena was the inaugural double bill of the 2013 Darbar Festival. This Indian classical music… Read More
16 December 2013
