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A Giant Leap
Zane Dalal traces the origin of the NCPA in a familiar story that finds its voice again, in...
LYDIAN NADHASWARAM: BEYOND THE BLINDFOLD
Lydian Nadhaswaram’s sterling performance in the audition round of The World’s Best (a talent show on the American...
Lydian Nadhaswaram’s Bumblebee
“Ladies and gentlemen, today I will be playing The Flight of the Bumblebee.” With these words, uttered with...
Rajendra Prasad Jain – A tribute
RP Jain – scholar, teacher, music lover, bon vivant – was one of the most civilised people I...
The Men Turn Three!
After a concert, or a season ends, I always experience a kind of sadness, or emptiness. You leave...
AN INVALUABLE LEGACY
This year, as the NCPA turns 50, we take a look at how a dream became a thriving...
J’ai Fame
Everyone assumed I was meant to do extraordinary things. But it seemed like I was the only one...
Can we save classical music?
The current state of classical concerts would be unrecognizable, even enraging, to the performers and audiences of the...