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.

Legendary Hindustani vocalist and Kirana gharana maestro of the khayal tradition Six-decade career spanning classical, devotional music, films Bharat Ratna awardee whose legacy lives on through music ...

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 ...

'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 ...

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi left the company of ordinary mortals yesterday. A tribute to the greatest musical genius of our times Pandit Bhimsen Joshi left the company of ordinary mortals yesterday. A ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, the legendary exponent of Hindustani classical music, was on Tuesday night chosen for the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award. The honour for the 86-year-old ...

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 ...

Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Pampha Bhusal asserted that the Bhimsen temple's reconstruction in Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur, was enhancing country's reputation at home and ...

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