Aug 14, 2016
A small Jam/Recording on the 14th where all will be singing A.R. Rahamans Vandematram. Everything will be recorded and shot live and put up online at 12:00 Am on 15th August.
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Pre-Independence Live Jam
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The Tapi Project : a musical paigam
Jul 20, 2016
Long gone are those days, when folk music was just a part of the traditional sects. We are witnessing an increasing number of Indie artists collaborating with Folk musicians and successfully weaving the ethnic sounds with their experimental renditions. In…
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India’s last taxidermist is still on a stuffing spree
Jun 21, 2016
Running India’s last taxidermy workshop in Mumbai’s national park, Santosh Gaikwad is a professor at the veterinary college in Mumbai. Working in an anatomy department his interest sparked in 2003 while visiting the Mumbai’s main museum. Previously he kept rare…
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176 year old photo studio in Kolkata goes dead.
Jun 21, 2016
Bourne and Shepherd, one of the world’s oldest running photo studios is closing forever this Thursday. Established in 1840 by famous British photographers William Howard, Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd was lastly run by Jayant Gandhi, who said “Things…
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