About Ragya

Hindustani classical music, for every hour of the day

prahars a day

For every hour
Ragas played to the time of day, wherever you are.
Fair to artistes
They keep their music, and share in what it earns.
On every screen
In the browser, on Android, on the Mac and the TV.

What is Ragya?

A home for Hindustani classical music

Most ragas belong to an hour: a morning raga at dawn, an evening raga as the light goes. Heard at its own time, a raga says what it was made to say. Ragya brings that back to everyday listening: a streaming service made only for Hindustani classical music, vocal and instrumental, from concert halls and baithaks, studios and archives, that plays the ragas of the hour wherever you are. Open it and let it play, or go as deep as you like into ragas, artistes and gharanas, at your own pace.

Every raga has a page: its time of day, its mood, and its renditions by different artistes.Browse the ragas
Every artiste has a profile: their gurus, their gharana and their music.Meet the artistes
Every gharana and instrument too, so a listener can follow a lineage or a sound across Ragya.Explore the gharanas
Every rendition has its own page, with its artistes, its raga and, where we have them, its lyrics, to share with anyone.

Music for the hour

In the Hindustani tradition, each raga belongs to a time of day. The day is divided into eight prahars of three hours each, and a raga sung in its own prahar is heard at its most moving.

Prahar plays the ragas of the hour, all day and night, by the listener’s own clock, wherever they are.Open Prahar
Its picture and colours change with the day, from the dawn’s to the small hours’, so the music and the screen keep the same time.
Choose what you hear: vocal, instrumental, or both.

Fair to the artistes

Ragya exists because of the artistes who share their music on it, and it’s built to be fair to them.

Artistes stay the owners of their recordings. Ragya only streams them, and listeners can’t download them.
A share of Ragya’s subscription revenue goes to the artistes, in proportion to how long their music is heard.
Ragya Studio is where artistes manage their profiles, send their recordings, and see their listenership and payouts.

An artiste or a label?Bring your music to Ragya

A premium app, on every screen

Ragya is made with care for how the music sounds and how the app feels, wherever you listen.

On the web: At ragya.com, on any computer, tablet or phone.
On Android: For phones and tablets.Ragya on Google Play
On the Mac: Ragya for Mac, in a window of its own.Download Ragya for Mac
On the TV: Cast from Chrome or Android to a TV with Chromecast built in.

Better sound with Premium: 192 kbps or higher, and every rendition in full.
Your favourites, the renditions you love, back to back, and a sleep timer that stops the music when you choose.

See what Premium brings

Our story

Ragya is made by a small team sharing a common vision: to bring Indian classical music, and the artistes who make it, to everyone. It keeps growing with every artiste who joins and every listener who finds a raga they love.

Get in touch

Listeners: Answers to most questions, and a way to write to us for anything else.Help and FAQssupport@ragya.com
Artistes: Bring your music to Ragya through Ragya Studio.How to join Ragyasupport@ragya.com
Labels: Labels and organisations can join on the same terms.support@ragya.com

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