Murmurs of Bismillah's big-hitting potential first did the rounds in 2009 when he made his First-Class debut for the Quetta ...

Qamruddin Khan (Bismillah Khan), shehnai player: born Dumraon, India 21 March 1916; married (five sons, three daughters); died Varanasi, India 21 August 2006. It is given to very few musicians that ...

Shehnai maestro and 'Bharat Ratna' Bismillah Khan once again finds himself in the spotlight, but this timeits not about music. It is because he has been crying hoarse about his poverty and inability ...

For most people in the West, classical Indian raga music means one instrument, the sitar, and one player, Ravi Shankar. Quite why Shankar came to be considered the greatest modern sitar player over ...

Ustad Bismillah Khan was one of India's most prolific musicians, gaining worldwide acclaim for playing the shehnai for more than eight decades. He was credited with helping the shehnai - a type of ...

Khan’s grandson was recently arrested for selling off the Ustad’s shehnai. Is his cultural legacy faring any better in his city, Varanasi? In a Shiva-fixated city, shehnai maestro, Bismillah Khan, ...

My enduring memory of Bismillah Khan is of a sunny winter morning on the terrace outside his roof-top room in Benaras. He sat cross-legged on a charpoy soaking up the sun, with a half smile playing on ...

Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan was born as Qamaruddin Khan on 21st march, 1916 in a traditional Muslim family of musicians in Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, Dumraon - in present-day Bihar. He was the second ...

Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan was born as Qamaruddin Khan on 21st march, 1916 in a traditional Muslim family of musicians in Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, Dumraon - in present-day Bihar. He was the second ...

Bismillah Khan, who died yesterday at Varanasi aged 90, was widely regarded in India as an Ustad (musical genius), and his playing of the shehnai is considered to represent all that is best about ...