Only 17 years ago, a Gujarat-based cultural organisation sought lift on a ban the All Indian Radio had imposed on the harmonium—and claimed its history traced to the British Raj era. The Maharaja ...

The Indian portable harmonium is a close cousin of the larger foot-pumped organs once found in European churches and homes. It’s a wooden box roughly the size of a small suitcase. You sit on the floor ...

Over the past few decades, the oft-sidelined harmonium has been rising to the status of a solo instrument, worthy of the lead role in the world of music. The instrument has emerged to penetrate ...