Overseas program(s):
India Fall 2015
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Varanasi - In Banaras, different neighborhoods of the city encompass different kinds of trades, businesses, and art forms. Since my arrival in Banaras, I was told that the musician’s quarters were in a neighborhood called Kabir Chaura, in the north of the city. Since I am a musician and am studying Hindustani gharana sitar, I was more […]
evan’s day out - Clients of RikiRam’s musical Instrument store include: Pandit Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Alla Rakha, The Beatles, George Harrison, and hundreds more of India’s best classical musicians. Upon entering the quaint shop, I saw sitars, sarods, tabla, harmonium, and tanpura lining the walls along with hundreds of pictures of his more […]