While the death of Dr Manmohan Singh created a void in the field of politics, the demise of Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain came as a shock to the music and entertainment industry. India's first Sikh ...

Z- Zakir Hussain passed away earlier this month due to complications arising from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease. The tabla maestro was a celebrated figure in Indian music and even ...

“It was a conspiracy,” the virtuosic Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain joked, when asked by the BBC to explain his genesis as a percussionist. “I was not at all a part of it.” It began ...

The occasion was a special tribute to the legendary tabla maestro the late Ustad Zakir Hussain, who passed away on December 15, 2024. The event, organised by Zakir Hussain’s brothers Fazal and ...

Annual musical event Bansuri Utsav will pay homage to renowned tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain in its upcoming edition next month, the organisers announced on Thursday. Hussain, one of the greatest ...

Travelling through the Gambia, it is hard to avoid the makeshift dumpsites burning along the roadsides, filling the air with toxic fumes. Outside the tourist areas, beaches and waterways are littered ...

As tributes overflow for tabla maestro and composer Ustad Zakir Hussain, who passed away at 73, on December 15, contrarily, words seem to leave me. The only thing that occupies my mind is that an ...

'Zakir bhai always said, 'koi chala nahi jata hai', he believed even after death, you left something of yourself behind and he has left so much of himself behind.' IMAGE: Tabla Maestro Ustad Zakir ...

Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain has left behind such a huge legacy with his “eternally dancing fingers” that his music is permanently housed in every music lover’s sensibilities.

Many famous Indians have passed away in 2024. From Ratan Tata, an industrialist who was so much more, to tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, who brought an instrument of accompaniment to the centre stage, ...

Last Sunday, officials from the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) Customs Office at the airport successfully intercepted 3 packages containing 26.4kg of ecstasy pills at the Redcoat. This operation ...