Rajan Parrikar Music Archive

The deeper questions.

Kesarbai Kerkar, Marie Curie, and the empty frame.

[Written as a coda to Sagas and Itihasa: Cultural Cognates.]

[This essay was published in Icelandic in Morgunblaðið on May 18, 2026.

Is melody fundamental, or is harmony?

Many non-Hindus, and some Hindus, even those otherwise educated, hold a fixed image: a Hindu standing before a stone or metal figure, understood to be God itself.

Not of an age, but for all time.* Asha Bhosle passed away today, April 12.

There is the sitar, and then there is the instrument in Ravi Shankar’s hands.

[This essay was published in Icelandic in Morgunblaðið on March 30, 2026.

[This essay first appeared in Icelandic in Morgunblaðið on February 17, 2026.