Shrilal Shukla's iconic novel 'Raag Darbari' offers a satirical critique of India's socio-political decay, portraying a village as a microcosm of national corruption. Celebrated posthumously on his ...

The 17th-century Ragamala painting of Darbari Kanada beautifully captured the grandeur of the raag. On the painting was inscribed a Sanskrit shloka from the ancient treatise Sangeet Darpan that ...

New Delhi, Hindi writer Shrilal Shukla’s timeless classic “Raag Darbari” was initially met with sneers in some corners of the Hindi literary world with leading authors and critics like Nemichand Jain ...

New Delhi, Jan 29 (PTI) Whether it was through the inimitable village patriarch Vaidya ji, or his disillusioned nephew Ranganath, the 1968 novel “Raag Darbari” raised serious concerns over the country ...

A conference was held recently at Delhi University to commemorate 50 years of Shrilal Shukla’s Hindi novel Raag Darbari. Shukla was an IAS officer who wrote Raag Darbari based on his experiences in ...

Mukesh was most emotionally bonded to this tune, so all we will do is look at his songs engaging with this raag in films. In his fascinating book, Windows To The Soul: And Other Essays on Music, Manek ...

If one were to make a list of 10 most popular Hindi novels, Shrilal Shukla’s “Raag Darbari” will definitely be among the first five. It is one of those books whose popularity and literary status ...

Maestros Pandit Rajan & Sajan Mishra held the audience spellbound with an outstanding rendition of Raag Darbari Kanada. It was a classic display of employing voice modulation, meends and ghasits to ...

New York, Sep 6 (IANS) The great Hindi writer Shrilal Shukla, popularly associated with his classic satire “Raag Darbari”, has found a muse some 12,000 kilimeters from his native Lucknow in New York.

Lucknow: Among the books that continue to draw readers' interest generation after generation is Shrilal Shukla's timeless ...

New Delhi, Hindi writer Shrilal Shukla’s timeless classic “Raag Darbari” was initially met with sneers in some corners of the Hindi literary world, as leading authors and critics like Nemichand Jain ...