Pandit 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 …
The rule of the Vedas that a cow is ‘Aghnya’ — meaning, not to be killed or violated — has been reiterated again and again in Sanskrit literature In every society, every civilisation and every culture, there is something that is held unique, sacred and inviolable by time and space. In order to justify the beef-eating, the British started the …
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