Featured as the background score of my new video short, The Boatman.
The blog post is here.
Featured as the background score of my new video short, The Boatman.
The blog post is here.
I came across this photo in the book Maa…Siddheshwari by Savita Devi and Vibha S. Chauhan (Roli Books, 2000). Except for the names below, no other metadata (such as the name of the photographer, context, location, year) is recorded.
I thought the image was already somewhere on the web but a brief Google Image search drew a blank. Perhaps it is there and shows up with the right set of keywords. At any rate, I thought I would place it here.
PS: In the background are portraits of Abdul Karim Khan and (what looks like) Alladiya Khan.
I shall never forget the afternoon of October 13, 1987: AIR delivered the news flash that Kishore Kumar had passed away.
Popular music is intrinsically generational: every prevailing mode of the day is consigned to obscurity when a new fashion takes over. It is extremely rare for practitioners of popular music or their style to survive this cyclic churn.
Kishore‘s adbhuta artistry and voice, however, were “not of an age, but for all time.” Of his Indian contemporaries, he is the only one most likely to appeal to generations yet unborn.
From the unfinished/unreleased NEELA AASMAN (1959), composed and sung by Kishore Kumar:
Ramashreya Jha “Ramrang” (Aug 11, 1928 – Jan 1, 2009)
The passing of a great Goan.
Photographer unknown; Photo source: Wind of Fire – The Music and Musicians of Goa by Mário Cabral E Sá, Promilla & Co Publishers, 1997.
A profile of Pannalal Ghosh written by Dr. Vishvas Kulkarni has been placed in the VPL Library. I thank the author for making it available.