For art lovers, a visit to the Jehangir Art Gallery is a must. Sushma Kothari’s debut solo show, Ink & Kin, is an intimate ...

Music lovers in Mumbai are invited to a unique evening that bridges the past and present of Indian classical rhythm. This ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to ...

Ustad Alla Rakha Qureshi (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000), popularly known as Alla Rakha, was an Indian tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical ...

Zakir Hussain was born on March 9, 1951, in Mumbai to tabla player Alla Rakha and Bavi Begum. He was the couple's eldest child who grew up to be one of the greatest tabla players of all time.

There’s a giant portrait of musicians, you know, a mural in the entrance hall of the international terminal in Mumbai Airport — and his portrait is like twice as big as everybody else’s, which ...

Alla Rakha had frequently worked in studios earlier in his career as a film music director under the name A.R. Qureshi. Says the son, "I was still not sure how he would adapt to the new technology.

The first time he saw Ustad Alla Rakha's eldest son, Zakir Hussain, was at an event in 1971 where renowned tabla player Ustad Karamatullah Khan, who was also Acharya's guru, was going to perform.

His father, the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha, started singing rapid, elaborate rhythms in Hussain’s ear. Parents were encouraged to sing prayers to their newborns.

Hussain, born in Mumbai’s Mahim, was the son of Ustad Alla Rakha Khan, a tabla virtuoso, who accompanied sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Simla House, Hussain’s home in Mumbai, was witness ...

Hussain’s father, the great Alla Rakha, did collaborate with the Palghat legends but the exchanges were few and far between. It was Hussain who worked extensively with an array of Carnatic ...

Zakir Hussain was the eldest son of legendary tabla maestro Ustad Alla Rakha. Zakir Hussain, born on March 9, 1951, in Mumbai, was a virtuoso tabla player who made a mark on the global level.