The last of the titans of Hindustani classical music, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was a rare genius who could transcend the mundane and transport his audience to the sublime with his gifted voice that ...

Legendary vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who enthralled generations of connoisseurs with his renditions of Hindustani classical music, passed away at a city hospital today after a prolonged illness.

On the 89th birth anniversary of legend Bhimsen Joshi, eminent singers will take to the stage and will pay a musical tribute to the classical guru. On the 89th birth anniversary of legend Bhimsen ...

'He sawed the air, chopped up the ground, flew a kite, plucked notes out of the firmament' I first heard Bhimsen when I was about 12. I was being given my first taste of classical music, and Bhimsen ...

“An artist of the stature of Bhimsen Joshi is born only once in a few centuries,’’ Pandit Ganapati Bhat Hasanagi said in Belagavi on Sunday. “His craft was unmatched. His dedication to art and his ...

It was a rainy day, and marked the birthday of the well-known artist, Ravi Paranjpe. “At the nudging of the sitarist Ustad Usman Khan I sang the Asavari todi with full tanas,” recalls Raghavendra ...

Gorging on breakfast to some seemingly random thing playing in the background; music when you’re hungry is supposed to mean only that. As one chum starts parodying that thing, it doesn’t seem just an ...

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who was born on 4 February 1922 and died on 24 January 2011. He was a legendary hundustani vacalist, and was a hallmark of the Kirana Gharana. Below in the table, more details ...

It is not often that one can describe somebody as the greatest in their field. In the case of the Indian classical vocalist Bhimsen Joshi that accolade really did apply. Renowned for his music's ...

Built in 1832, under the commission of the then Prime Minister Bhimsen Thapa- the iconic ‘Dharahara' tower also famous as Bhimsen Tower, was a nine-storey, 61.88-metre-tall (203.0 ft) tower at the ...

MUSIC seemed to require him to use every part of his body. From a slow, mesmerised, almost motionless start his eyes would roll upwards, foreshadowing the ascent of the notes that emerged from his ...