Indian Classical music stays active as online academies see a huge expansion in enrolments
It took a pandemic and a lockdown for nine-year-old Ahana Balaji to at last select for Hindustani Classical music classes, something she had been planning to accomplish for longer than a year. An understudy of Carnatic music who likewise plays the guitar and learns Bharatanatyam, Ahana had next to no an ideal opportunity to seek after Hindustani Classical music during her pre-pandemic daily schedule.
“Most of my day went in commuting as I had to travel to various parts of Chennai to take my music and dance lessons. However, the pandemic shifted my classes online and I saved a lot of time that I otherwise spent travelling,” says the resident of OMR in Chennai who has been taking online lessons since March.
Like Ahana, a few music aficionados went to online classes during the pandemic...