Rajeev Taranath’s sarod played in the shared space of music, poetry
Hindustan TimesPandit Rajeev Taranath, sarod maestro and disciple of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, had a PhD in TS Eliot’s poetry but continued to quote a more romantic WB Yeats while discussing music. Rajeev Taranath’s sarod played in the shared space of music, poetry I have always considered him an intimate outsider in the fabled world of the Maihar Allauddin gharana, as everyone there, except him, defined illustrious lives only through music whereas Taranath led an intellectual’s life in music. Our relationship with a raga is like that.” Eminent Carnatic musician TM Krishna in his condolence message called Rajeev Taranath “a brilliant artist and a brutally honest human being with such an exciting modern mind”. Rajeev Taranath and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia did the music score of G Aravindan’s one-of-a-kind Malayalam movie, Pokkuveyil, in which Balachandran Chullikkad, an eminent, modern poet in the language played the protagonist.
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