Dinesh Ghate 'Jain' | dinesh@swaraalap.com Make music not war always because I believed that music is flowing. You go anywhere and you will come across the music. It can be through water, breeze, trees, etc. Similarly, Music can be created by man from any equipment, instrument, in fact, any object and material. These thoughts were...
Atul Merchant 'Jataayu' | merchatul@gmail.com Baba gathered forty orphaned children and brought them to his house. He bathed them, fed them, and gave them accommodation in his house. Baba’s gesture became the talk of the town. In 1918, the last year of World War I, the Spanish flu pandemic claimed 50 to 100 million lives worldwide,...
Atul Merchant 'Jataayu' | merchatul@gmail.com Ut. Allauddin Khan took charge of Uday Shankar’s orchestra, and the music became a sensation. Between dance performances, when the curtains fell for a change of setting and for dancers to change costumes, Baba filled the time with his solo sarod renditions, as well as his brief renditions of other...
Atul Merchant 'Jataayu' | merchatul@gmail.com In 1934, Uday Shankar was planning a tour of eighty-four cities in Europe and America with his ballet troupe. Timir Baran, who had been in charge of the music, expressed his inability to join them on this tour as he had signed a contract with New Theatres that made him...
By Atul Merchant ‘Jataayu’ | merchatul@gmail.com Swar Aalap presents excerpts from the book Annapurna Devi – The Untold Story of a Reclusive Genius written by her disciple Atul Merchant ‘Jataayu’. Those who had heard her perform claimed that she had conquered the summit of Indian Classical Music. Ut. Amir Khansaheb had commented, ‘Annapurna Devi is 80 percent of...
