Music and arts across South Asia

It's part of the archaeology department's scheme to acquire and restore historic buildings in the walled city

Meera, who is The Hindu's correspondent in Sri Lanka, illustrates S.P.Balasubrahmanyam's amazing range through songs in an interview to Globe Tamil's Arun Arokianathar in Colombo.

Muthuswamy Master, who invested Sinhala film music with a new sound on par with Indian films, came to Sinhala films with Sri Lanka;’s first feature film Kadawanu Poronduwa (Broken Promise) as a member of Music director R.Naranaya Iyer’s orchestra and stayed on to make a mark.

His haemodynamic and clinical parameters are being closely monitored in the ICU of a Chennai hospital

As part of the democratization of art sales, the Colombo Municipality allows artists to sell their works in the street outside the Viharamahadevi Park

June 2 (Independent) - Some of the leading names in the music industry are participating in “Blackout Tuesday” amid calls for change in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Protests erupted around the US after a video emerged showing a white Minnesota police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes during an arrest in Minneapolis. In solidarity with the...

Lack of State funding, inadequate private sponsorship and high entertainment tax are crippling revival efforts in Sri Lanka.

The Ghazal "Ranjish hi sahi" written by Ahmad Faraz is originally from a Pakistani film Mohabbat (Urdu - 1972). The Music composer was Nisar Bazmi.

Movie: Do Behnen (1959) Singer: Lata Mangeshkar. Lyricist: Ramchandra Baryanji Dwivedi (Kavi Pradeep) Music Composer: Vasant Desai. Stars: Rajendra Kumar, Shyama and Chand Usmani

Each song is about figuring out various landscapes, says frontman Khalid of the Bengaluru-based band