Dr. Gangubai Hangal stands tall among India’s classical music titans, her voice a beacon for the Kirana gharana. Hailing from Karnataka, she broke barriers as the state’s first woman vocalist …
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Picture this: a young girl from a marginalized community in pre-independence India, mocked as ‘ganewali’ for daring to sing publicly. That was Gangubai Hangal, whose journey from Dharwad’s streets to …
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February 10 stands immortal in Indian cultural history, the day in 2009 when Pandit Bhimsen Joshi received the Bharat Ratna at his Pune residence. A beacon of Hindustani classical tradition …