Friends came home the other evening, carrying home-cooked mutton biryani. I was a bit unhappy with their offering — not because I didn’t like the biryani, but because I missed their matra — a simple ...

In the second episode of our series on less popular taals, we move to Char taal ki sawari, a rhythmic cycle of 11 matras. Like Matta taal that we discussed in the previous article, Char taal ki sawari ...