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The Proficient Dr. Aparna Mayekar

Nisha Jalori | nishajalori@gmail.com "The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles" forced to quote it as this feature of mine will cover a versatile singer, who at the ripe age of 75 years, has a successful career as a practising doctor and a multi lingual singer. Dr. Aparna Mayekar has sung more than...

THE LUMINARIES - Prabha Atre 0

Dr. Prabha Atre: a Multi-dimensional personality

Bhushan Toshniwal | toshniwalbhushan054@gmail.com A person can be either a singer, a music critic, a guru, or an author on music. however, Padma Vibhushan Dr. Prabha Atre is among those rare artists, who do well in all the above-mentioned facades of music. she has performed all over the world, written books on music, composed over...

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“मैं मरा नहीं, ज़िन्दा हूँ, दुरुस्त हूँ”

ईशमधु तलवार "वो तेरे प्यार का ग़म" से साभार | लेख संकलक - प्रशांत कर्वे - +91-9769135971 शीर्षक पढ़ कर कर प्रतीत होता है कि किसी भूतकालीन दुर्घटना में मृत घोषित व्यक्ती की यह पुकार है। अतीत में ऐसी कईं घटनाऐं सामान्य हैं। किंतु कुछ अर्से तक सुर्खीयों में रहे किसी प्रतिभासंप्पन्न कलाकार का हाशीये...

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KK Left Us With What He Enjoyed The Most

Anisha Nandan |anisha.45687@gmail.com Krishnakumar Kunnath popularly known as KK, is An Indian playback singer, a musician whose songs robbed the hearts of many. He breathed last at the age of 53 in Kolkata on the night of 31st May. After his performance at a fest at Nazrul Manch, a venue at Vivekananda College, KK collapsed during...

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गीत की लय ही उसे चिरायु करती है – पद्मविभूषण गोपालदास ‘नीरज’

Dr. Kirti Kale | kirti_kale@yahoo.com कवि सम्मेलन का अध्यक्ष किसी सूची संपन्न प्रतिष्ठित व्यक्ति को बनाना चाहिए। उसे साहित्यिक ज्ञान भी होना चाहिए। पहले अध्यक्ष का मनोनयन सभा द्वारा होना चाहिए फिर कार्यक्रम के प्रारंभ में अध्यक्षीय उद्बोधन होना चाहिए, जिसमें श्रोताओं को बताना चाहिए कि जीवन में कविता का क्या महत्त्व है और कवि...

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Zindagi Pyar Ka Geet Hai – Usha Khanna

K. V. Ramesh - Shankar Iyer Think of Hindi film music, and the names of those prolific music composers immediately come to mind. We have grown and lived with hundreds of their compositions that have seldom failed to touch our hearts. Among the many great composers were two female composers who made their mark and...

Pt Ramdas Kamat

Pt. Ramdas Kamat: A Modern great of Marathi Musical Plays

Bhushan Toshniwal | toshniwalbhushan054@gmail.com Marathi Sangeet Natak [musical plays] has enjoyed a rich and long tradition [around 140 years], and has witnessed great artists like Narayan Shripad Rajhams Acca Balagandharva, Dinanath Mangeshkar, Saudagar Gore Acca Chota Gandharva, Jairam, and Jaymala Shiledar, Hirabai Badodekar, who popularized this art through their musical prowess, and relentless commitment. Before movies,...

Ustad Ghulam Ali

Gulam Ali: The Ustad of Ghazals

Bhushan Toshniwal | toshniwalbhushan054@gmail.com In an era, when the great Mehdi Hassan was ruling the world of Ghazals with his emotive baritone voice, and Raga-based renderings, Ustad Gulam Ali emerged as a parallel force, with his unique technic, which was an amalgamation of mastery on Raga, Laya, and poetry. Unique Talim Apart from his father, Ustadji learned...

Pt jitendra Abhisheki

Pt. Jitendra Abhisheki: A Versatile Musical Genius

Bhushan Toshniwal | toshniwalbhushan054@gmail.com Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki was a walking encyclopedia of various forms of music, which helped him not only as a performer, but also to become a great Guru, Author, and Music director. His mastery of various genres of music right from Khayal singing (in both common and rare Ragas), to folk songs...