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Saudha Ghazal Thumri & Kheyal Festival | Keats House
From Oct 10, 2025 to Oct 10, 2025 in Keats House London.
Saudha Ghazal Thumri & Kheyal Festival | Keats & His Contemporaries
Keats House, 10 Keats Grove, London NW3 2RR
A Festival of three popular genres of Indian semi-classical, extremely romantic, heart-piercing music interpreted through romantic poetry.
A festival of three important genres of Indian semi-classical music that Saudha has been hosting since 2015.
Curated by T M Ahmed Kaysher, the festival offers a fresh new and rare presentations of Ghazal Thumri and Kheyal - three visceral genres of Indian semi-classical music with complementing, re-interpretative verses of poetry from global literature.
The session at the iconic Keats House Museum (The place itself is tourist attraction where poet John Keats lived significantly and creatively important years of his life) is featuring a leading Indian classical vocalist of this time based in London Chandra Chakraborty with Aniruddha Mukherjee on Tabla and with recitation of complenting verses of leading English Romantic poet Keats and his contemporaries. by a powerful performance poet Shree Ganguly.
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Rhymes for River & Planting Poetry in Parliament
From Dec 18, 2025 to Dec 18, 2025 in The Holyrood Room, The Scottish Parliament, Horse Wynd, Edinburgh EH99 1SP.
Thursday 18 December at 17:30 to 19:30
The Holyrood Room, The Scottish Parliament, Horse Wynd, Edinburgh EH99 1SP
Sponsored by Foysol Choudhury MSP and curated by Chandra Chakraborty and T M Ahmd Kaysher, the session features a hypnotic Saudha production RHYMES FOR RIVER AND PLANTING POETRY IN PARLIAMENT, a unique art-initiative on that combines classical music, poetry-theatre, dance and painting. The production vivifies a fresh philosophical connotations of river in addition to redifine the relation between nature and human as well as climate-awareness.