Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
Gurnaad Academy Keeps Rare Sikh Instruments in People’s Hands
A New Delhi music academy teaching Puratan Gurbani Kirtan, voice, and traditional Sikh instruments online and in person.
Why it surfacedIts instrument catalogue includes the rabab, taus, dilruba, esraj, tar shehnai, and jori, while Ustaad Gurmeet Singh Sant Khalsa frames the academy as a living practice rather than a museum piece. Founded in 2006, it connects vocal discipline, rāga, pronunciation, rhythm, and meaning with learners in New Delhi and around the world.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.