Prashant Tamang, 24, was the underdog until he made it to the top 2, some say by miracle. And thereafter he went on to become better and better till he was voted as Indian Idol-3. The West Bengal constable pipped his rival Amit Paul, also from the North East, on the Grand Finale night.

NEW YORK: Indian colors - and not just orange, white and green - were splashed across midtown Manhattan's fashionable Bryant Park over four days, through music, dance and fashion showcased by the best of Indian artists.

NEW YORK: Saffronart presents a grand retrospective of the work of Sayed Haider Raza, one of India's most prominent and critically acclaimed modernists.

NEW YORK: Composer, producer and well known tabla player Suphala will be conducting tabla classes in New York starting October.

NEW YORK: Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale -- two of the most visionary talents working and pioneering the overlap of today's popular world music scene - have collaborated to create a genre-hopping sonic journey within the many varied worlds in which these two artists exist.

NEW DELHI: Cat walked with Sushmita Sen in the '90s, Gitanjali Nagpal today roams haywire in a state of ill mental health, begging on the roads of Hauz Khas village. It's a horrifying story of the dark side of glamour: how one false move can send a promising career to a downward spiral of drugs and self-destruction.

NEW JERSEY: The New Jersey State Theatre, in cooperation with IACRF and World Entertainment, will present a jugalbandi program of Carnatic and Hindustani music maestros, Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna and Ajoy Chakrabarty on Sept 22 at 7 pm as part of the Discover Artistic India program