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.
Front row (l-r): B.R. Deodhar, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Amir Khan, Thirakhwa, Siddheshwari Devi, Bal Gandharva
Source: Maa…Siddheshwari by Savita Devi and Vibha S. Chauhan
I shall never forget the afternoon of October 13, 1987. AIR carried the news flash: Kishore Kumar had passed away.
Popular music is intrinsically generational. Each prevailing mode is eventually swept aside as fashion turns. It is exceedingly rare for a practitioner, or even a style, to survive this cyclic churn.
Kishore’s adbhuta artistry and voice, however, were “not of an age, but for all time.” Among his Indian contemporaries, he stands alone in his likelihood to speak to generations yet unborn.
A Treasured Memory – Panjim, March 1986
Photo by: Gourish Nadkarni
From the unfinished/unreleased NEELA AASMAN (1959), composed and sung by Kishore Kumar:
Ramashreya Jha “Ramrang” (Aug 11, 1928 – Jan 1, 2009)
At my home in Panjim – August 03, 2007
The passing of a great Goan.
Kishori and Mogubai at their temple in Curdi, Goa
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.