For Haridas Vhatkar, tabla making won’t be the same again, as he mourns the passing away of his most celebrated customer, Ustad Zakir Hussain. “I first began making tablas for his father Alla Rakha, and made tablas for Zakir Hussain saab since 1998,” an emotional Vhatkar, 59, told PTI. He paid a lot of attention to the ‘tuning’ aspect of …
Zakir Hussain, to the world, will always be known as the tabla maestro with a big smile on his face. Zakir's title of sexiest man Zakir was voted the “sexiest man” by women readers of the Indian magazine Gentleman in 1994 in a competition against the likes of Amitabh Bachchan. I think they were equally shocked and surprised that I …
