and it is only in the last 200 years that the instrument has beaten its musical competitors like the Pakhowaj and the Dholak. “By the late 1800s, the tabla was becoming the principal percussive ...

"Tabla is the first base in music. When music started ... like Bikram Ghosh converted it successfully into a solo instrument. Students at the Academy say they are motivated by Ghosh's success ...

Rimpa Siva is a tabla maestro who has changed the way people see women in Indian percussion. Trained by her father, pandit ...