‘Bolava Vitthal’, an evening of abhangs organised by Pancham Nishad to celebrate Ashadhi Ekadashi at Chowdiah Memorial Hall in Bengaluru, has become an inalienable part of the city’s musicscape . The ...

Warkari is a tradition within the bhakti cult of Maharashtra. Central to the ‘Warkari Sampraday’ is the annual pilgrimage or the ‘wari’ to the temple of Vitthal in Pandharpur that stands on the banks ...

Pune: Music often joins hands with devotion. And when it does, it erases divides of language, musical genre, background and religion, says Carnatic vocalist Ranjani. She is talking about abhang, a ...

This Sunday (July 6) marks Ashadi Ekadashi, a major festival in Maharashtra and a significant day for the Warkari sect that culminates in a pilgrimage to the Vitthal temple in Pandharpur. To mark the ...

“On the occasion of Ashadi Ekadashi, when I sing abhangs here, I will consider that my prayers are being offered at the feet of the Lord in Pandharpur,” believes Jayateerth Mevundi, a Karnataka-based ...

"Maharashtra Abhang ratna, Shri K. Ganesh kumar", considered very good in rendering of Marathi abhangs in India and all over the world, is conferred the title Maharashtra abhang ratna, by the temple ...

Hundreds and thousands of film songs in more than a dozen languages, ghazals, patriotic songs and also ‘bhav geet’, the quintessential semi-classical, non-filmi songs in Marathi, Lata Mangeshkar sang ...

Gajar (The din, the alarm) is a noisy film. While vividly portraying the 700-year-old ceremonial tradition of the Pandharpur Wari - about 20 lakh warkaris make the pilgrimage from Alandi to Pandharpur ...