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    Ravi Shankar: A Profile

    Ravi Shankar: A Profile By MOHAN NADKARNI The Illustrated Weekly of India, September 25, 1955 RAVI SHANKAR, the famed sitar-player, ranks among the great musicians of today who have devoted their lives to the revival and enrichment of our traditional music with fresh inspiration. Scion of an aristocratic Bengali Brahmin family, 35-years-old Ravi Shankar is […]

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    Elevating fare at Tagore memorial

    By MOHAN NADKARNI The Economic Times, August 21, 1988 Gurudev Tagore had a world view of life. His genius therefore spanned a truly phenomenal range in creativity. And that is what rightly made him the most celebrated pioneer of creative music in modern times. Though Tagore’s music did fall outside the rigid traditional domain, it […]

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    Bhimsen Joshi is 75

    A tribute to Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, the doyen of Hindustani classical music, on his 75th birthday, by Mohan Nadkarni, his biographer and well known critic.