For Anuradha Pal, tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain’s death is a personal loss. The Limca Book of Records holder for being the world’s first professional female tabla player, Pal trained under Hussain and is still in shock. Anuradha Pal with Ustad Zakir Hussain She goes on to recall the “lifetime of wonderful memories with him”. He would listen to them …
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 …
