Prabu Shankar has been selling chappathis at the doorstep of houses for the last 2 months. (Right) Prabhu playing nadaswaram However, with all temples closed since March 24 and no functions being held ...

It takes many days to make a block of wood sing. And it takes exceptionally talented craftsmen to do it. The four families who still make the nadaswaram by hand in Narasingapettai (a village near ...

“This is one of the most important instruments of Carnatic music along with the veena,” says Injikudi E.M. Subramaniam, a music industry stalwart and a 20th-generation nadaswaram player. He refers to ...

With the mushrooming of ‘chenda melam’ groups from neighbouring Kerala, the nadaswaram and thavil players in Thanjavur are getting a raw deal these days. With the mushrooming of ‘chenda melam’ groups ...

Nadaswaram exponent Sheik Mahaboob Subhani, who along with his wife Kaleeshabi Mahboob received the Padma Shri award in 2020, passed away after a brief illness at Srirangam on Wednesday. He was 71 and ...

Mumbai: Nearly 100 artistes played the nadaswaram at the Sankaralayam temple, Chembur, on Saturday morning, as part of a rehearsal for Sunday morning's grand Carnatic music event in Matunga. The ...

A couple of days ahead of T.N. Rajarathinam Pillai’s death anniversary this week, another nadaswaram maestro gave two Carnatic concerts at a Kerala shrine north of the Palk Strait that divides his ...

Class 12 student Karthik has made a Nadaswaram, a wind-based musical instrument which is usually made of wood, using stone in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai. A musician playing ‘Nadaswaram’ made by Karthik.