Who is kumar gandharva

His doctors even asked him to stop singing because of the severity of his condition. But nothing improved his chance of singing until when streptomycin which is an antibiotic medicine to treat diseases like tuberculosis was introduced in India.

Eventually he made some changes to his style of singing as one of his lungs was severely damaged and could not be used anymore. He started experimenting with ragas and even fused the already existing ones.

The classical singer was praised by all for his distinct style and experimentations but was criticized by traditional exponents of classical music. He opted for a theme and then arranged a set of ragas and folk songs in a precise order. India needs free, fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism even more as it faces multiple crises. But the news media is in a crisis of its own. There have been brutal layoffs and pay-cuts. The best of journalism is shrinking, yielding to crude prime-time spectacle.

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Thursday, 11 November, Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy. Password recovery. Deodhar to take him under his tutelage. If the boy was a natural rebel, his rebellion was carefully nurtured by Deodhar, who, unlike his contemporaries, shunned the rigid shackles imposed by the Gharana discipline, even while keeping his taleem steeped in Gwalior gayaki.

It won him both, a cult-like following and equally ferocious criticism. But quite contrary to his iconoclastic image, there are others who firmly believe he was in fact, the true classicist. As a man concerned with wholes, his music was in many ways a conflux of Gharanas.

As a teacher, he would show his pupils the Kirana approach to a note, which is a bit like a single point stroke, and also the Agra approach which is more a broad-brush technique.

And then leave it to them to decide how they wanted to interpret it. Yet, these apparent deviations from norm do not fully explain his phenomenal singularity and the distinct mood that his music had the ability to create. His crippling disease and a strict instruction by the doctors not to sing at the very peak of his prowess — which lasted five traumatic years and got him to Dewas in the first place — brought about a radical change in Gandharva.

He became a seer, a student of life, absorbing, studying and silently introspecting about music to fill the void. He began doing things for a reason. It was also during this hibernation, when strains of folk music fell to his ear, that he came to a realisation that all classical music, in essence, found its origins in these primordial tunes.

And so, when he sang them, he never altered them or set them to any particular raag, but rather found the perception to see that a raag was already hidden somewhere in the pore of each melody.