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A leading exponent of Mohini Attam, Sunanda Nair has emerged as one of the few practising luminaries of this style of classical Indian dancing.She is considered to be the prima ballerina among Mohini attam dancer's and also one of the outstanding performers of the younger generation in India today.

Born in a music loving family in 1960 at Lucknow, Sunil Kant Gupta was motivated to take up some form of musical expression by his father Shri Ram Chandra Gupta.

Taufiq Qureshi, an ace percussionist of India, is also an acclaimed composer. Being the son and disciple of the legendary tabla maestro Ustad Allarakha; Taufiq’s performances showcase the traditional flavour and intricacies of Indian rhythm, interwoven with his phenomenal command and sparkle of contemporary world percussions.

Trichy Sankaran has made a contribution of unique range and scope to the Canadian artistic community and to Canadian musical culture. His contribution is broad and varied. He has done significant and important work as a performer, composer, academic, musical educator, and cultural ambassador.

Ustad Rashid Khan has included the slow elaboration in his vilambit khayals in the manner of his maternal uncle and also developed exceptional expertise in the use of sargams and sargam taankari.

A performing artiste of rare sensitivity and versatility is Vasumathi Badrinathan. As a vocalist of Indian classical Carnatic music, Vasumathi combines a fine blend of tradition and creativity in her singing style.

Jayanthi is The best and most versatile Veena artiste we have today. One of the leading Vainikas of the world, she has established herself as an artiste with rare insight, class and technical sophistication.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt has mesmerized the world with his pristine pure, delicate yet fiery music. It is due to Vishwa's maiden mega effort that he rechristened guitar as MOHAN VEENA, his genius creation and has established it at the top most level in the mainstream of Indian Classical Music scenario.

This is the the Homepage of Sarod player Wajahat Khan, internationally renowned North Indian Classical Musician. This site features some stunning pictures, info and some music.

Eleena's art may generally be characterized as expressionistic. It has grown out of her existential dilemma of living in a metropolitan city like Kolkata where she was brought up since her childhood as the only child of a working parents. The chilled silence of the loneliness inside her inner self has reacted with the loud turmoil of the city around her to generate a space of personal void. Against the background of this personal void within her inner self, she has, at a later stage, confronted quintessence of various streams of beauty, beauty of nature, life, philosophy and aesthetics, during the seven years she studied art at Visva Bharati of Santiniketan. Rabindranath was gradually unfolded to her through art, literature, music and nature. At that stage she was also acquainted with the vast treasure of Far-Eastern aesthetics. Especially the Chinese Taoist philosophy made an imprint on her. The void within her gradually got transmuted. The darkness glowed with an omnipotent light flickered out of all these sources. A kind of duality evolved, duality of exuberant colours and benumbed stillness, duality of jubilant light and serene darkness, duality of the 'heart' and the 'head'.

Yusuf Arakkal is one of the India's leading artists, painting in oils, acrylics and watercolours, drawing in pencils and pastels, modelling in play and plaster.