An ancient fiddle-like tribal instrument on the verge of extinction is making melody on screen. Banam, a film on a string instrument used by the Santhal community as an accompaniment to its songs, has ...

'Banam', a musical instrument, which inspired patriotic songs during the independence struggle, is on display at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS), according to a press release here ...

He hasn’t heard of Mozart or Bach, but Kinu Suraj Tudu is a musician par excellence. Eighty-year-old Tudu and his friend Pargan Hembrom are performers and preservers of a stringed instrument named ...

For centuries, Santhals, spread across West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar, have nurtured culture and heritage. Some of the finest music and art traditions originated in this tribe and went on to ...