Pune: Music often joins hands with devotion. And when it does, it erases divides of language, musical genre, background and ...

Under the leadership of the Marathi Abhyas Kendra and with the support of various like-minded individuals and organisations, ...

Modi recited four lines from the abhang and added, "This reflects my love for Marathi, which you all know. Though I am not very proficient in Marathi, I always try to speak in it." ...

The launch of Anand’s latest book The Notbook of Kabir: Thinner than Water, Fiercer than Fire at the India Habitat Centre unfolded an exploration of music, spirituality, and anti-caste resistance. The ...

In this show, they present Abhangs, Natyageet, Ghazals, Bhaavgeet and some Hindi songs. While Abhangs are devotional songs sung in praise of Vitthala, Natyageet is a Marathi folk form of storytelling ...

Often, the songmakers were from the working castes. By the twelfth century, this style of speech-as-song found its way into the Kannada world as the vachana movement. A vachana is remembered speech, ...

Mumbai, Oct 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asserted that there will be more scope for education, learning, writing and research with the Marathi language after getting the Classical ...

Bramhachari Ishan Chaitanya from Chinmaya Mission on Vedanta (Image Supplied) The audience then witnessed a performance from the Arohi Academy of Music, led by Vidya Teke, whose rendition of Marathi ...

Over the years, I have composed a few abhangs, and I like to include them as I go. For this year, I actually have written my first abhang, and I have composed and sung it.

Of course, in the field of abhangs, I am a newcomer. Most singers featured in the show earlier have been Maharashtrian or those who regularly sing in Marathi.

Like Namdev, Janabai, and Eknath, Tukaram wrote in archaic Marathi a large number of devotional poems identified in Marathi as abhang (à¤à¤­à¤à¤). A collection of 4,500 abhang known as the GÄthÄ is ...