On the banks of river Jhelum in Srinagar’s Siraj Bazaar area of Zaina Kadal, Ghulam Mohammad Zaz is sitting in his house to handcraft santoor, a traditional musical instrument. The 70-year-old Zaz is, ...

What is that one thing that makes age-old soap brands stay memorable across generations? Is it the fragrance, the colour, or the packaging? Not quite. Consistency in product promise and brand ...

SRINAGAR: In a modest workshop filled with the fragrance of seasoned wood, 78-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Zaz continues a craft his family has preserved for eight generations — the making of the Kashmiri ...

Watching Abhay Rustum Sopori play raag Bhagwati, his own creation, on the santoor at a recent concert during the Pandit Kshitpal Mallick Music festival in Delhi, one thought about the instrument’s ...

Santoor recently became No. 1 soap brand in India, overtaking the long-term war horse of Hindustan Unilever, Lifebuoy. My association with Santoor started in1994. If you had then asked me if Santoor ...

Under a starlit sky, in a quiet reverberation at Woods at Sasan in Gir, a retreat surrounded by a 16-acre mango orchard, it was not the rustle of mango leaves nor the breeze"s soft hum, but the ...

Pt. Shivkumar Sharma, veteran santoor maestro, passed away in Mumbai due to cardiac arrest. He was 84. Hailing from Jammu, Pt. Shivkumar, put the multiple-string santoor at the centre stage. He ...

Wipro’s sandalwood and turmeric soap claimed to make your skin lie about your age and is now raking in the moolah while at it. Everybody craves immortal youth and Santoor, a sandalwood and turmeric ...

Santoor maestro Shivkumar Sharma died on Tuesday in Mumbai, The Indian Express reported. He was 84. The santoor exponent had been suffering from kidney-related ailments for the past six months. He ...

Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting (WCCL) recently announced that its flagship soap brand Santoor has edged past Hindustan Unilever’s (HUL) Lifebuoy to reach `2,850 crore in 2025 revenues, making it the ...

Santoor maestro Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya returned from a US tour with a mission to connect Indian Classical music with the next generation. He plans to bring performances to schools and digital ...

Namrata Singh | TNN Mumbai: Santoor has become the first soap brand from an Indian FMCG company to breach annual sales of Rs 2,000 crore. Wipro Consumer Care, the maker of Santoor, confirmed the ...