Ragas on the net

THE ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata, has a rich repository of Hindustani Classical music which can now be enjoyed through their web portal `www.itcra.org'.

A highlight of the portal is its `Gharana' section. Representative of the many Gurus of the style, it hopes to make available the 10 major gharanas to music lovers worldwide.

With different sections of SRA Gurus, information on legendary musicians and their music, the portal also provides a peep into a documentation of over 500 bandishes.

These have been culled out from over 1,000 hours of recording of 41 living and learned musicians. The project was funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation.

Among the other interesting segments are `Know Your Raga', an innovative online education tool, `Samay Ragas', where one can listen to a raga relevant to a particular time of the day.

By using the `Samay Chakra' with its 12 time zones, ragas appropriate to each time zone can be accessed and heard in the singer's voice of your choice.

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