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Raga Adi Basant: Laal Gopal Gulal Hamari - Pt. Jasraj ·

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Late Sangeet Martand Pt Jasraj

Blog Post of March 2014 in memory of Late Sangeet Martand Pt Jasraj

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Reproducing a blog post of March 2014 as homage to Late Pt Jasraj. I had the priviledge of being in the audience at a programme that the legend had graced:

It was Saturday,15thMarch (2014). Took a quick look at Mumbai Mirror for listings in city and suburbs and was disappointed to see an  NCPA announcement for  7 pm show of London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) at Jamshed Bhabha Theatre with bold header “Sorry we are SOLD OUT!” – That’s rubbing salt on wounds !! Hence eyes wandered unwillingly for other listings and one titled ‘The 1stMale Female Duet Festival’ caught my attention. It was a Durga Jasraj –Neeraj Jaitley initiative and the evening promised two duets – a percussion jugalbandi and a vocal duet,titled ‘Jasrangi Jugalbandi’ featuring Ashwini Bhide Deshpande and Sanjeev Abhyankar. The name Ahwini Bhide was enough to make me take the notification seriously  and after quick telephone call to the organisors I realized that the event had no entrance fee.My resolve to be there became firm and the ire directed at NCPA for the having sold out  the LSO event faded to the background

The event started off a bit late. I thought that the hold up was due to His Excellency the Governor of Maharashtra, despite his red beacon and a pilot, was still unable to beat the traffic jam to the venue which was about 4 kms from his abode on Malabar Hill! Soon it became clear that ‘Bapuji’, as Durga Jasraj kept referring to Sangeet Martand Pt Jasraj, was a bit behind schedule. To keep the audience engaged Talat Aziz ,who was seated next to Pankaj Udaas in the audience went up and in a conversation with Durga (a male-female duet had already begun!) informed us about the project, which had blessings of United Nations Information Centre for India & Bhutan and Bank of Baroda. Talat Aziz impressed me-his tall frame, Urdu and ease with which he quoted from milestone events to emphasize that women are on a equal footing with men in all social walks-by their sheer force of achievements; if not denied an opportunity by unfair social action and inaction!

But soon Panditji and his entourage- ‘Ma’, Baba Goswami (a dhoti clad elder who was evidently being revered by many artists and musicians present), etc lit the ceremonial lamp and before one realized, Durga Jasraj had announced that Rimpa Siva and S Swaminathan would begin the evening’s first presentation. She on tabla-a percussion instrument so popular (and we have an accomplished exponent of the instrument in our batch, too) and yet so closely associated with great exponents, that one waited with bated breath to discover why this young artist has shot to fame as ‘The Princess of Tabla’, ever since the French have made a documentary on her by the same name in 2009. On the other hand one was equally curious to hear what kind of magical sounds would a young man in orthodox Tamil attire, complete with a tilak and choti, would beat up from his percussion disc, the size of a full moon, called ‘kanjira’- (a mini version of a duff). But by word! What an ecstatic performance followed for next 45 minutes. She was strong and subtle at the same time as she began from simple ‘taals’ and went on to play,’gats’,’tukdas’ and  ‘bandishes ‘ composed by her father as well as legendry Keramatullah Khan of Farukhabad Gharana. And complementing her music were the now primordial and now exhilarating sounds from Swaminathan’s Kanjira as he dipped into the vast reservoir of Karnatak Music traditional thaats, innovatively blended with beats from Tamil folk music and to my ears, even Afro-Caribbean beats to weave a spell of magic. Truly you have to hear his recordings to believe that such range of sounds and beats could be extracted from a humble looking kanjira!

Niranjan Lele kept the accompaniment on harmonium and displayed enough dexterity to complement at once two artists playing music from two completely different traditions at the same time.

Spellbound as I was, I completely agreed with Durga Jasraj’s opening remarks that we were going to be privileged audience to a young ‘powerhouse’ performance.

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His Excellency had arrived. So had some famous Mumbaikars like Shabana Azmi, Dolly Thakore (oh, I never thought I would see her other than at St Andrew’s Bandra at a Rael Padamsee production or at Salt Water Café or Bunglow No 9 type of an eatery in Bandra!), Pt Ratan Mohan Sharma, etc. So to do the honours, some of these dignitaries including Ms Kiran Mehra-Kerpalman, Director, UNIC India were called to the stage and rituals completed with some fuss. Shri Mundra, CMD Bank of Baroda spoke very few, yet erudite words ,quoting from an exchange of couplets between Miyan Tansen and Surdasji, drawing parallel to gender equality. His Excellency in his heavily Mallu accent soon after finishing his officially scripted message went on to add that while both Rimpa and Swaminathan are child prodigies, the day is not far when a just born child would start acting smart, as is currently being shown in some ad on the telly!

The programme was already behind schedule, but who would want to give up the chance to hear Dr Ashwini Bhide Deshpande and Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar duet?

The title Jasrangi Duet was new to me. Durgaji wants us to believe that Pt. Jasraj was the original activist and promoted gender equality by contributing ‘Jasrangi’ – a musical philosophy to our society, long before page 3 variety socialites began crying hoarse, about recognition of equal status to women in society. The philosophy was simple- to achieve the equality through fusion of ragas encompassing male/female styles, swara, renditions, etc. And before us were an accomplished ‘young ‘master of Jaipur Atrauli Gharana on one side and an even ‘younger ‘master from Mewati Gharana and disciple of the veteran Pt. Jasraj, himself in the audience to bless his disciple, promising a Jasrangi Duet. Could hardly wait on how the rest of the evening would unfold!

And as Abhyankar made brief opening remarks on music the two had in store, what followed was personally an education for me. The Pandita would begin the opening in raag Lalit -a morning raga- from which he would pick the 4th note and adjusting his scale to treat the same as his first note complement the same to produce raag Puriya Dhanashree; an evening raga! As if this seeking of union of two ragas meant for opposite hours of the day was not symbolic enough, the very styles of rendition being from different schools-Atrauli Jaipur and Mewati further added to the symbolism for Durga Jasraj’s venture U & I. And of course the personal factor added by the two accomplished musicians- to quote “Ashwini’s musicianship is characterized by a blend of tonal sweetness coupled with vitality and emotion and raga structure-architecture. Her raga delineation shows an unerring grasp over the grammar of the raga yet maintaining a soulfulness in her singing”. Whereas under the towering presence of his guru, it was but natural that mellifluousness was effusing in Dhanashree rendered by Abhyankar, his tonal quality even close to mimicking his guru’s! However, let me confess. The scales, unevenly balanced in Ashwini’s favour from the start, dipped even more in her favour as the music unfolded, for two reasons- one, she was at her best that evening in evoking notes of the six note lalit and second that Abhyankar at times found to difficult to match the scale set for him from which he had to take off to transform lalit to Dhanashree. To the uninitiated-the closest Bollywood number in lalit is ‘Ek shahenshah ne banwaa ke hasin taj mahal’. And somewhat close to Puriya Dhanashree would ‘yeh, pehele pyaar ki khushboo, tere saanson se jo aa rahi hai…’ But the complementing aspect of nature in union of ‘stree and shakti’ or ‘ardhanareshwar’ seemed to have been accomplished by the musicians.

The ecstatic audience (me included) gave a long, long ovation to the two artists; such was the impact of their Jasrangi jugalbandi experiment!

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Incidentally, by some more Google search, I came to know that Dr Ashwini has a full-fledged Ph.D. in Physics under her belt which she got while interning at BARC Mumbai, a career she gave up in pursuit of her musical calling.

No doubt, science has not lost and musical heritage of this country has been further embellished

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Shiva Bhajan, Ganesha Bhajan : सोमवार Special Music: Label: T-series, Lyrics: Traditional Singers: Anuradha Paudwal, Hemant Chauhan, Pt. Jasraj

00:00 ♫ Mahamrityunjay Mantra 11 Times 04:58 ♫ Om Gan Ganpataye Namo Namah (Ganesh Mantra) 09:04 ♫ Om Namah Shivay Dhun 19:21 ♫ Om Shree Ganeshay Namah 11 Times 20:34 ♫ Shiv Panchaskhar Stotram 23:14 ♫ Vakratunda Mahakaya Shlok 5 Times 27:02 ♫ Om Karpur Gauram Karunavtaram,sansar Saaram

-- सोमवार Special I शिव मंत्र I गणेश मंत्र I Shiv Mantra I Ganesh Mantra, Om Namah Shivay,Panchakshari (via T-Series Bhakti Sagar)

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SPIC MACAY’s musical tribute to Pt. Jasraj

SPIC MACAY’s musical tribute to Pt. Jasraj

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‘Rasraj Smaran,’ the online event hosted by SPIC MACAY to pay tribute to Pt. Jasraj, became a haunting musical evening

Last week, SPIC MACAY (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth) brought together some of the living legends of Indian classical music and dance for ‘Rasraj Smaran,’ a live online homage to Sangeet Martand Pt. Jasraj, who passed…

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Tributes : Pt Jasraj

Tributes : Pt Jasraj

The richness of personna

the tribute to krisna

who was he?

somebody ‘i’ don’t know

but I lived him

now he has gone

we all go

with us – our person goes

leaves behind a persona

we say , we knew

we don’t know

and now we may never know

the same eloquence as what we just witnessed

Era faded

Pt Jasraj went to his next sojourn

and…

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Pandit Jasraj Passes Away: people said- 'End of an era'

Pandit Jasraj Passes Away: people said- ‘End of an era’

Pandit Jasraj Passes Away: The world of Indian classical music has received a major setback today. Pandit Jasraj, a veteran of classical music, has passed away. At the age of 90, Pandit Jasraj said goodbye to this world forever. Pandit has died in New Jersey, USA. His daughter Durga Jasraj gave this information.

While giving the news of the death of Pandit Jasraj, his daughter Durga Jasraj told…

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4th Javed Jaffrey

6th Shekhar Kapur

6th B. Subhash

6th Vikramaditya Motwane

7th Shekhar Suman

8th Dharmendra

8th Shazahn Padamsee

9th Shatrughan Sinha

9th Dia Mirza

10th Vidyut Jamval

11th Dilip Kumar

11th Sara Loren

12th Rajnikant

12th Aman Trikha

14th Rana Duggabati

14th Biswajit

15th Babul Supriyo

15th Usha Mangeshkar

16th Harshdeep Kaur

17th John Abraham

17th Riteish Deshmukh

17th Suresh Oberoi

19TH Mahie Gill

21st Karisma Tannah

21st Tamannaah

21ST Amin Sayani

21st Govinda

21st Anand (Anand Milind)

24TH Anil Kapoor

25th Jackkie Bhagnani

25th Raju Shrivastav

27th Salman Khan

28th Richa Chaddha

29th Pulkit Samrat

29th Twinkle Khanna

30th Sonali Vajpai

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Postage stamp for completing 50 years of Pandit Jasraj's Pt. Motiram Pt. Maniram Music Festival

Postage stamp for completing 50 years of Pandit Jasraj’s Pt. Motiram Pt. Maniram Music Festival

The festival was inaugurated by the late classical singer Pandit Jasraj in memory of both his father and brother classical musicians. (Representative image) Pt. Motiram Pt. Maniram Sangeet Samaroha is the annual classical music festival held every year in November at Chaumhalla Palace, Hyderabad. Indian Postal Department “Pt. Motiram Pt. Maniram Music Festival ”. It is the annual classical…

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Postal Stamp to Mark 50 Years of Pandit Jasraj's Pt. Motiram Pt. Maniram Sangeet Samaroha

Postal Stamp to Mark 50 Years of Pandit Jasraj’s Pt. Motiram Pt. Maniram Sangeet Samaroha

The festival was started by late classical singer Pandit Jasraj in memory of his father and brother, both classical musicians. (Representative image) Pt. Motiram Pt. Maniram Sangeet Samaroha is an annual classical music festival held every year at Chowmahalla Palace in Hyderabad in November Indian Postal Department will issue a stamp to mark 50 years of “Pandit Jasraj’s Pt. Motiram Pt. Maniram…

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Music festival from today - The Hindu

Music festival from today – The Hindu

Pandit Jasraj 49th Pandit Motiram Pandit Maniran Sangeet Samaroha until Nov. 30 Well-known musicians Vidwan U Rajesh, Ashwini Bhide, Deshpande and Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar (Jasrangi Jugalbandi); Viraj Joshi, Pt. Rattan Mohan Sharma, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ritesh and Rajnish Mishra, Pt. Yogesh Samsi featuring Swapnil and Yashwant and Ustad Rashid Khan will perform at Pandit Jasraj’s 49th Pandit…

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Shiva Bhajan : Special Shivji, Ganeshji, Vishnu Ji Ke Bhajans Singers: Anuradha Paudwal, Pt. Jasraj, Suresh Wadkar, Lakhbir Singh Lakkha 00:00 ♫ Vakratunda Mahakaya (Shlok) 00:25 ♫ Utaaro Aarti Bholenath Ki 08:29 ♫ Shriman Narayan(dhun) 14:15 ♫ Jai Ganesh Jai Ganesh 20:13 ♫ Om Namah Shivay(dhun) 24:53 ♫ Jay Lakshmi Ramna 30:52 ♫ Jai Jai Satyanarayan Swami 38:11 ♫ Kaal Ki Vikral Ki (Mahakaal Ki Aarti) -- सोमवार पद्मा एकादशी Special Shivji, Ganeshji, Vishnu Ji Ke Bhajans I Shiv Aarti,Jai Ganesh Deva,Dhun (via T-series Bhakti Sagar)

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Experience of living in different cities

In my life of more than 7 decades, I have lived in some 8 cities starting from Ahmedabad, Pilani, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Yokohama( Japan), Muscat (Oman) and Bangalore, in that order. I will make an attempt to pen down the “trivial”, but not so common, features of my experience.

I was brought up in Ahmedabad from 1954 to 1967, which were mostly my student days. We lived on the outskirt of the city and our society of bungalows was surrounded by open fields where still farming was going on. Other than school and college, I was busy playing different games with my neighbors. I enjoyed Gujarati snacks and would take extra efforts to get them. Our neighbors were very kind and did not complain of our cricket or other games played anytime of the day. City had a very good bus service and it was our main transport. Our bungalow had a few tenants like us but it did have a problem of water and sewage. Water supply was short and erratic, and septic tank sometime spilt over. We loved the festival of Navratri ( Garba/Dandia) and kite flying on Makarsankrant. 

I shifted to BITS, Pilani hostel for five years from 1967. The change from day scholar to hostel life was huge. I could do what I wanted and when I wanted (freedom) except class attendance. Other than academic pursuit, I was able to indulge in sports/games. I learnt how to play basket ball, table tennis and contract bridge. I improved my ability to play carom, cricket and hockey. Being confined to the campus for a couple of months at a stretch, I enjoyed food in the mess and also outside at Nutan market/dhabas. I was introduced to black (udad) dal, lemon rice, mawa mutter, stuffed parathas and stuffed capsicum/tomato in the mess. Outside the campus got to taste Titar (partridge), reportedly a banned bird. I was bombarded by Hindi movies as every Saturday a movie was screened for students. I probably saw more than 125 movies in BITS in five years, compared to less than 20 movies seen earlier. Initially the old movies were screened in 16 mm in a quadrangle of the main building but later new movies in 35 mm in a huge auditorium. Once in a while, we escaped the campus life to see late night movie in a makeshift shed called Jayashree talkies.

After graduation in 1972, I lived in South Delhi till the late 70’s, initially as a bachelor and then a family man. Major problem of Delhi was public transport as I did not own a vehicle then. City bus (DTC), autorikshaw or yellow taxi were most unreliable and the operators ( drivers and conductors) most non-cooperative and rude. My wife, who joined me from Bombay, was most shocked as she compared this scene with BEST of Bombay. I did not face much problem as I used a contract bus to go to office. As a bachelor, I used to join others on most Saturday night’s for a party. The liquor law did not permit drinking in public so we sometime managed to cross into Haryana (Faridabad) and consumed beers and chicken. Returning after the fling was not a problem as “drive after drinks “was not an offence. In Delhi, we enjoyed different types of food –Punjabi and Chinese. Our favorite places were Lajpatnagar market, M block market in GKI, Narulas and Hongkong in GKI. Most tasty samosa was made by a small vendor in East of Kailash A block market. At residence, we faced water shortage and had to cook on kerosene stove.

We  shifted to Bombay in early 80’s and lived there for 8 years. Biggest difference was a moderate summer compared to Delhi and very efficient city transport whether bus, taxi or autorikshaw. We also enjoyed the sea and its beeches- Girgaon, Dadar, Juhu and Malad. We, however, had to face some water shortage. We once again were able to enjoy street food like batata vada, Frankie, bhel etc. We also loved Irani café menu of maska pav, kheema pav, baida( egg) roti etc. We started going to Marathi plays often and enjoyed the change from Hindi movies. I got to own a flat in 1982 and a Bajaj scooter in 1984. That made life easy.

We moved to Pune in the mid 80’s for a brief period and are staying there till date (more than 20 years) except our breaks to go to Japan, Oman and Bangalore. In first phase, we got to live in a bigger place, owned our own Premier Padmini car and telephone line at residence, all thanks to Thermax, my employer. The major sigh of relief was water availability and good round the year weather-moderate summer, monsoon and winter. These advantages remain even today. Pune offered the advantages of a village and city. Distances were short and day out picnic spots in the surrounding hills were approachable and affordable. I got introduced to music (performing arts) of all kinds –classical, light, gazal, filmy and non filmy. I was able to attend live performances of stars like Pt. Jasraj, Kaushiki Chakravarty, Shaunak Abhisheki, Hariharan, Raghunandan Panashikar, Jagjiy Singh, Alka Yagnik, Shankar Madhavan,Shaan, Sarod by Amjad Ali, dances by Hema Malini, Minakshi Sheshadri. Also new upcoming stars like Vibhavari Joshi Apte, Hrishikesh Ranade.Pune reintroduced us to Lord Ganesh and we love the ten day special festival of Ganpati. I was and am able to indulge in outdoor activities like walking, swimming and going to hills. We got introduced to YOGA-pranayam, Omkar, suryanamskar etc. We do it regularly even today. Our health received a boost as we got to know more about homeopathy medicines as my wife has seen lot of benefits to this alternative therapy. I was able to afford and enjoy different cuisines. My membership of a club once again enabled me to see a Hindi movie every week. Since it was free, one had the luxury to walk out of un-interesting movie without feeling guilty.

We moved to Yokohama, Japan during the 90’s. The change was huge-from “stone” age of Pune, India to space tech level in Yokohama,Japan. The weather was excellent and all the utilities-water, piped gas, electricity and land line were reliable and affordable. First time we used a Microwave oven and rice cooker with a timer. Only my daughter’s international school fee was a huge dent on my pocket but she had the best quality of education. We got initiated into Japanese food and loved visiting China Town for authentic Chinese cuisine. My daughter enjoyed the American fast food at McDonald’s and Pizzas at Shakey’s. Surprisingly there were more than fifty Indian restaurants in Tokyo area and we loved the Naan served there. The public transport (bus, train, taxi) was reliable, clean and convenient even for foreigners like us despite the language hurdle. We also enjoyed a ride on the famous bullet train (called Shinkansen) from Yokohama to Kyoto (400 kms). Like Japanese people, we also started visiting and appreciating the nature in the hills near Yokohama including hot springs and Mt. Fuji. We were surprised and shocked to find all public places-footpath, roads, stations, bus stops and toilets were spotlessly clean (clean like home). Another surprise was that weather forecast was very reliable and available in the lift lobby of the buildings. Being an island country, it would rain any time and this forecast helped. We also got introduced to huge superstores and malls.  Some malls were part of railway stations e.g. Yokohama. We also got to know the vending machine culture of Japan. Many daily required items (soft drinks, coffee, tea, snacks, milk, beer, cigarette etc) could be purchased from vending machines which were all over- on footpath, near stations, lift lobbies, parks etc.Even train tickets were on a vending machine. We also made our first visit to entertainment parks like Disneyland. We also got used to the deep tub (OFURO) bath that Japanese used to keep warm during winter. I got introduced to Sumo, the Japanese wrestling and professional baseball.

We moved to Muscat, Oman for two and a half years in the late 90’s. Other than the high temperatures (summer could be + 50 Deg C), the life was very enjoyable. Oman was an exception in the Middle East and it honored Indians and Hindus. The biggest hurdle to mobility was a driving license and I got it fast luckily. I was glad to drive around in a Camry, poor person’s Mercedes. We were regular visitors to 200 year old Shiva temple and newly built Krishna temple, both built and managed by kutchi community. We were able to buy Indian vegetables and fruits easily and reasonably priced. There was easy access to Indian restaurants and street food. We got introduced to Kerala paratha (laccha paratha) and some tandoori roti from Pakistani outlets. We got introduced to Lebanese cuisine and we loved it. We could go out for dinner, which also offered Indian music or Egyptian belly dance. We were privileged to see Hindi movies on Thursday night, a day before they were released in Mumbai. We were able to drive down to Dubai in 4 hours (400 Kms) and enjoy the shopping. Driving was a pleasure as all had to follow the traffic rules and they were followed. Muscat had lovely road side greenery and flowers, and they were maintained with great efforts. Muscat airport restaurant was open for non-muslims during Ramadan and that was a big relief.

After retiring from a Pune company in 2012, I took a short assignment in Bangalore. We were lucky to stay in huge residential complex in Whitefield. First time in our life, we stayed in high rise building on the 11th floor. We enjoyed the famous Bangalore weather but had to face mosquito menace. The complex had a zero water requirement as it treated and re-circulated most of the sewage. It, however, gave a bad smell in parking area (basement). We had to bear bad water quality. We used aqua guard treated water for cooking and bought Bisleri for drinking. The water quality also reflected in poor quality of green vegetables. Another problem we faced was traffic jams- it took almost 90 minutes from our residence to reach the airport. Most facilities in our area were catering to IT crowd and hence it was re-adjustment for us.

In conclusion, I can say that present day life style is a mixture of what we picked up from different cities. Ironically my wife always wanted and wants things from the cities we left behind. For example, she wants palak, green peas and fulgobi (vegetables) from Delhi, Fish from Mumbai, Farsan from Ahmedabad, Miso soup and Yakisoba from Japan, Mysore pak from Bangalore. These small things keep us connected to the cities we had lived in.

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Raag Megh - Pt Jasraj , Ustad Rashid Khan & Pt Ronu Majumdar

https://youtu.be/Q29OLNltW0A

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Indian classical music singer Pandit Jasraj has passed away

Indian classical music singer Pandit Jasraj has passed away

Pandit Jasraj Passes Away: Indian classical music singer Pandit Jasraj has passed away. He died in New Jersey, USA. He was 90 years old. PM Modi has expressed grief over his demise and his photo has also been shared by PM Modi on Twitter.

At the same time, while giving the news of the death of Pandit Jasraj, his daughter Durga Jasraj said that with great sadness we have to inform that the music…

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The year that was...

Dear Friends:

Season’s Greetings!

In the celebrated Yaksha-prashna episode of the Mahābhārata, responding to one of Yaksha’s questions Yudhishtira says,

Day after day, countless beings are going to the abode of death; yet those that remain desire to live forever! What can be a greater wonder than that?

2020 served as a grisly commentary to this famous utterance.

Year after year sees birth and death, with the former always surpassing the latter. While the birth of a child causes joy to a small group of people, the death of a person can cause sorrow to millions. 2020 was a ghastly experience for me with regard to death: several individuals who influenced me either directly or indirectly passed away and in my own case, I felt death’s knock on my door—albeit for brief moments—during an irksome bout of tuberculosis that lasted a couple of months.

Some eminent personages—all renowned in their own fields—that I had the good fortune of meeting, engaging in discussions, or collaborating with over the years breathed their last in 2020 – Dr. V Prasanna Bhat (a finance/management whiz and close friend of my father whose cerebral approach to life and meticulousness influenced me in many ways), Subramaniam Chittur (entrepreneur, Rotarian, communications expert, and the man who brought Toastmasters International to India – an organization that proved transformational for me as early as during my high school days), Ranjon Ghoshal (renowned actor/director who was my guide in the world of theatre and a consummate conversationalist with whom I have discussed themes ranging from the Vedas to folk music, from Bengali literature to stage lighting, from advertising to colonial history), Ivry Gitlis (world-famous violinist whose masterclass I was lucky to attend when he visited Bangalore in 2005), Pt. Jasraj (renowned Hindustani singer with a golden voice whom I had the fortune of meeting when he performed with my guru Dr. L Subramaniam during the LGMF), Prof. Roddam Narasimha (one of India’s foremost scientists whom I was fortunate to have interacted with on three occasions, thanks to his nephew and my college classmate Varun Prakash; the eclectic mix of physics, philosophy, ancient Indian science, and Sanskrit that formed the mainstay of all my interactions with him always proved inspirational to me), and Dr. Gayatri Rajapur (an extraordinary musicologist and gottuvadyam exponent who I first met through her disciple and my friend Vinay Kumar, and later got the opportunity to interact on many occasions during the academic committee meetings of the LGCE; I always marvelled at her deep erudition, immense patience, and clear exposition).

2020 also saw the death of famous personalities who influenced me in some way or the other although I never met them: S P Balasubrahmanyam (playback singer, actor, and TV anchor), Basu Chatterjee (filmmaker and screenwriter), Soumitra Chatterjee (actor, playwright, and poet), Sir Sean Connery (actor), Irrfan Khan (actor), Prof. T N Krishnan (violinist), James Lipton (actor, writer, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School), Diego Maradona (football legend), Ennio Moricone (music composer), James Randi (conjurer, rationalist, and activist), Sir Ken Robinson (author and educationist), Sankar (artist and painter, renowned for his sketches in the Chandamama monthly including the iconic painting of Vikram and Betal), et al.

Some of the memorable episodes from the BC (Before Corona) days include my debut as a pṛcchaka (in the saṅkhyā-bandha division) in an Avadhāna of Śatāvadhāni Dr. R Ganesh; a trip with my mother to Sosale, our ancestral village; a weekend getaway with friends from my study group; editing/designing the seminal work Prekṣaṇīyam; attending the day-long dance conference Tha-Dheem that included speakers such as Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, Śatāvadhāni Dr. R Ganesh, Saroj Khan, Rajiv Menon, Nirupama Rajendra, Dr. Rajkumar Bharathi, Praveen D Rao, and Pravin Godkhindi; and participating in Madanothsava, a 1,600-year-old community festival of spring recreated by Nirupama and Rajendra of the Abhinava Dance Company.

The multiple lockdowns in 2020 gave me the opportunity to pursue my activities with greater focus and solitude. On the day of Yugadi (March 25) I started reading the Mahābhārata in the original Sanskrit along with my good friend Arjun Bharadwaj; in the early days, we met up online twice or thrice a week and discussed the chapters we read (he was always ahead of me, thus giving me the much-needed impetus to move forward!) I edited and designed a new version of Ram Gopal Misra’s 1983 classic Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders up to 1206 A.D. (which was published in October). In collaboration with my friends G S Raghavendra and Srishan Thirumalai, I worked on a modern translation of selected verses from Lilashuka’s Śrīkṛṣṇakarṇāmṛtam (which is still in progress). I spent a lot of time practising the violin. The various study groups that I am a part of also saw an upward trend with regular online sessions; while we missed the leisure and the human connection offered by in-person sessions, we were able to save travel time and also accomplish more in the same one hour allocated to the study.

During the later part of May, I contracted a fever that simply wouldn’t go away. Forty-two days without a break it persisted. Pyrexia of Unknown Origin they called it. Following a battery of tests and much speculation by medical experts from diverse disciplines I was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the lymph node. The two months of June and July were largely spent in bed, totally disconnected from all my activities. I sailed through, thanks to the good counsel of my doctors (Dr. Alaka Acharya, Dr. Amar P, and Dr. G L Krishna) and perhaps more importantly, the long-standing support from my parents and my friends. I neither deserved nor desired the unconditional love and affection that I was showered with. I really don’t know how to account for the selflessness of my family and the generosity of my friends. It is a debt that is impossible to repay. And uttering any words of gratitude will only expose my ineptitude.

In 2020, I had the opportunity to speak on a few topics to diverse groups (young professionals, dance students, interns working in the back office of a politician), write a few essays (including one in Kannada, my first), restart my sketching journey, and work on editing/designing a few books (revised edition of Studies in Ancient Tamil Law and Society by Dr. R Nagaswamy and A Tapestry of Pen-portraits by S R Ramaswamy).

I also recall with great fondness the many illuminating conversations I had in 2020 – on music (with my guru Dr. L Subramaniam and with my friends Vivekananda, Ranjani Vasuki, and Kashyap Naik), on Sanskrit literature (with G S Raghavendra, Srishan Thirumalai, and Sudheer Krishnaswami), on multiple subjects related to India and Indian culture (with Dr. S R Ramaswamy, Śatāvadhāni Dr. R Ganesh, Vasuki H A, Vighneshwar Bhat, Arjun Bharadwaj, and Jayasimha K R), on writing and literature (with Prof. L V Shanthakumari, Chandra Shekhar, Sarita Talwai, and Bhumika Anand), on art and artistry (with Nirupama, Rajendra, Sagar Mehta, and Somashekhara Sharma), on politics and society (with Cedric Blair, Karthik Rao, Shankar Venkataraman, Showri H R, Shreesha Karantha, and Vikram Phadke), on history and education (with Dr. R Nagaswamy, Dr. M D Srinivas, Sripriya Srinivasan, and the Samvit team), and a variety of topics (with my family and my friends including Aditya Jeurkar, Chandrashekhar K S, Hrishikesh M K, Pratap Simha, and Srikanteswara).

My father turned seventy in 2020 and to coincide with what he terms ‘fifty years of adulthood,’ he brought out his autobiography Doing Well, Feeling Happy, which is really a book about work-life balance and handling crisis with equanimity. He also happened to put together a small book about the amazing human body, a result of his online research, while he was trying to understand the cause for my prolonged fever. Incidentally, during my convalescence period, I wrote a short piece on the Bhaja Govindam, which was also published as a booklet along with the other two works.

I spent the last few days of 2020 with my friends and their family in the sylvan surroundings at Rishikesh, Devaprayag, Lakshman Jhula, etc. The two highlights of the trip were meditating in Vasishta Guha on December 31st evening and white-water rafting on the Ganga on the first day of 2021. To me they represent the serenity and satisfaction one must experience during the conclusion (of a day or a week) and the enthusiasm and energy one should feel during the commencement (of a new day or week).

As for 2021, I have a few plans in terms of what I wish to accomplish and how I should proceed towards my chosen goals. Having broken down the process into weekly targets, I’m going to share that with a few friends so that they will—hopefully—constantly remind me about my shortcomings. I hope to practice the violin 18 hours a week, read 100 books (having bought a Kindle as a Dasara gift), drastically cut down on sugar, sketch occasionally, considerably reduce screen time (both on my mobile and computer), and learn to live more simply with better health and greater empathy. These are all aspirations at present; let’s see how they go as the year progresses :)

Wishing you and your family a joy-filled, healthy, and prosperous new year!

Cheers, Hari PS: Here is a podcast I recorded (in conversation with Mowna Ramachandra) about the musical creations of my guru, Dr. L Subramaniam.

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