Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Shamsuddin Faridi Desai – "The Qadri Sufis regard music as a pathway to God"

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Shamsuddin Faridi Desai,  amongst the last Rudra Veena players of the pre-independence generation, was not an easy man to interview. I tri...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Raga Darbari Kanada – the majestic gait and its tonal geometry

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Raga Darbari Kanada has often been described as the Emperor of Ragas and the Raga of Emperors . These descriptions recall the raga’s associ...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Book Review : By Partho Datta

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Hindustani music: A tradition in transition . Deepak Raja. DK Printworld, New Delhi. Rs. 490/- This is a big book of essays and miscel...
Monday, April 28, 2008

How the Begum trumped the Nawab

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Kumar Mukherjee (died: 2007) was, for several decades, one of the most influential members of Calcutta’s music “establishment”. In 2006, Pe...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Swara, Raga, & Rasa – a perspective

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Reproduced from “Hindustani Music – a tradition in transition” Author: Deepak S. Raja Foreword: Pandit Shivkumar Sharma Introduction: Lyle...
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Sanjh Saravali – Ustad Vilayat Khan’s Magnum Opus

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It is known of Ustad Vilayat Khan, that he did not particularly care either about adopting new ragas crated by others, or about creating ra...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Ulhas Kashalkar – “Don’t be in a hurry to judge us”

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Ulhas Kashalkar spoke to Deepak Raja on January 1, 2000 I have had a variety of influences on my music. Even my Gurus brought a multiplic...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Raga Gara – The raga and the fragrance

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This essay is now published in my fourth book: Removing it from here was proper, though not obligatory, in order that my publisher...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma – “The foundation of the 'Musician's Truth' is sincerity and seriousness of purpose”

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Foreword to Deepak Raja’s book: “Hindustani music – a tradition in transition” signed on May 16, 2004. Change is the only permanent re...
Friday, January 25, 2008

Raga Ahir Bhairav... and issues in raga grammar

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Since Bhatkhande’s documentation of raga grammar in the first quarter of the 20th century, “Vadi” and “Samvadi” swaras have been the pivot...