Kumar Gandharva
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Kumar Gandharva: First Encounters
The following is an excerpt from Pt. Satyasheel Deshpande’s Marathi book, Gaan Gunagaan, Rajhans Prakashan, 2023, edited and translated by Srijan Deshpande. An abridged version of this piece was carried in The Hindu’s Friday Review edition, dated April 07, 2023, to mark the beginning of Kumar Gandharva’s birth centenary year. I would sing all the time then, at the age of Read more
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Doctoral Dissertation: The Alterity of Kumar Gandharva
I earned a PhD! My doctoral dissertation, entitled ‘The Alterity of Kumar Gandharva: Exploring Otherness in the Hindustani Khayal’, is a study of the music of Pt. Kumar Gandharva, one of the most important figures of Hindustani music in the latter half of the twentieth century. It involves constructing a rigorous account of the alterity Read more
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On Kumarji
Note: This piece was written for a local publication in 2012 and was meant to be a quick introduction to Kumar Gandharva To condense the prolific, six-decade-long career of Pt. Kumar Gandharva into six hundred words is as impossible as it would be to experience the tumult of a year’s worth of seasons in a Read more