Varanasi's cultural heritage shines with newly certified traditional products like Banarasi Shehnai and Banarasi Tabla receiving GI tags.

“Bismillah Khan converted the shehnai into a classical instrument. It used to be played at weddings and ceremonies, but he added the singing bit to it, added elements of dhrupad and ...

It was here that a young Bismillah Khan practiced for hours ... faded away from the Naubat Khana but the Ustad, who took the instrument to the world stage and became synonymous with it, lives ...

Ustad Bismillah Khan practiced a lot before he could make ... said there may have been a decline in demand for the instrument in the city but the number of orders have increased from the rest ...

Various artists will present cultural programmes and perform with musical instruments like santoor and shehnai in the mahotsav, she said. Ustad Bismillah Khan Gharana, Sufiyana Group Bhagalpur ...