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What is the All Pakistan Music Conference
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The Saarey Music Journal
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The Saarey Music Journal
Raagmala
You’ll know Raagmala as the paintings collection — the miniatures that give each Raag a visual identity. The word means “a garland of Raags” — and like that garland, this journal threads a whole tradition together.
The Saarey Music Raagmala is built for the whole tradition — to read, and to listen.
Essays and research on South Asian classical music — its Raags and its artists, its gharanas and instruments, and the centuries of culture and heritage that carry them. Rooted in a living tradition that already keeps time by colour, season, and hour.
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Read the thinking behind the Journal — why the name, how it’s built →
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The Journal
Essays, interviews and research on South Asian classical music — its artists, its history, its living heritage.
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Write for Raagmala
Know this tradition from the inside? Write it down.
Raagmala is built on independent voices — performers, scholars, and close listeners. There are no gatekeepers here: you write, it publishes at once, practising musicians judge it on the seven sur, and the pay follows the quality. The finest work carries the Ni and Taar Sa honours and leads the Journal.
- Original scholarship on the music — a Raag, a gharana, a composition
- Interviews with artists, makers and teachers
- History and heritage — lineages, instruments, and place
- Listening essays tied to an hour or a season
- Readings of the Raagmala paintings themselves