People sometimes fall in love at first sight — but Jyoti Hegde fell in love at first sound. The renowned Rudra Veena player, who performed at a recent music festival at NCPA in Mumbai before taking to ...

The winner of the popular singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs will receive a special gift from the Mangeshkar family - a pure silver 'Veena' instrument. Usha Mangeshkar, a member of the ...

Ustad Mohi Baha’uddin Dagar, the son of renowned rudra veena maestro Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar is an exponent of the Rudra veena. Rudra veena is the oldest surviving stringed instrument in India, ...

BENGALURU: Veena, the instrument of Goddess Saraswati, is meticulously hand-carved out of the wood of a jackfruit tree, which makes every veena unique. “Each veena has a story to tell,” says veena ...

The State government has ordered at least 200 replicas of Bobbili Veena to Sarwasiddi family, which is famous for making the musical instrument, through Andhra Pradesh Handicrafts Development ...

Karthiki Mohanadassan fell in love with the sound of the veena when she was just seven years old. It was during one of her visits to Malaysia when she had tagged along with her mother to the Sri Ragam ...

N. Rajendran presents his veenas with the flourish of a jeweller, carefully lining up the handcrafted string instruments against the wall of his drawing room in Thanjavur with the ‘kudam’ (resonator) ...