eminent listeners
Sayeeduddin Dagar (left) and Pramod joshi (ellow shirt) among audience
vijnan bharati
lec dem in pune on June 1, 2010
Teaching
With an Indian and scottish student in Pune
Light Music
A one-hour programme with raga-based songs from Hindi films
Raga Bhoopali
Performing at the first Ramkrishnabua Vaze Punyatithi Samaroha in May 2000
at home
Bengali Kurta Kantha work of Rajasthani design
indian outfit forever
at home in pune
pune june 2010
vijnan bharati
performance and lec dem
vidnyan bharati june 1, 2010
lec-dem june 1 2010
My guru's family of Dhrupad singers
At Ustad H Sayeeduddin Dagar's (second from right) residence in Pune
why is man smaller than his own constructs
I am opposite the Big Ben near Embankment, London
London 2010
On Gower Street near London University March 29 2010
Leeds university UK
At Leeds with Elissa Turay after conference presentation on music March 26 2010
Leeds University UK
With Prof Graham Welch, London University, after my first overseas International conference presentation at Leeds March 26, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
In the 'Story of Hindustani Music' under the section Bhakti movement, the ITC Sangeet Research Academy mentions that the word 'bhakti was first used in around 800 BC, but the Bhagwat Geeta which certainly predates this estimate describes the Bhakti Marg. Scientists in NASA have shown that the Mahabharata war was fought in 3027 BC and hence the date of the word 'Bhakti' is much earlier. Again you have written 'evolution' of Hindustani music. This seems to be in keeping with Western paradigm of time which is on the one hand reductionist and on the other linear. The Indian way of looking at time is cyclical and does not presume any unidirectional 'growth' or evolution of anything; somethings evolve while other aspects in the same thing might degenerate. This is so true looking at the Egyptian pyramids; the first pyramid is the most perfect and the subsequent ones are degenerate.
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