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Ravi Shankar
The melodious strains of Ravi Shankar's sitar have carried Indian music across the seven seas. Ravi Shankar is now a world famous personality. His recitals in India and abroad draw huge crowds. Millions of fans gather to hear him.
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Allauddin Khan
A famous disciple of Wazir Khan and an extraordinary teacher and performer himself is Ustad Allauddin Khan of Maihar in Central India.
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Bhimsen Joshi
Bhimsen Joshi, who is riding the crest of popularity and has ridden it for the last several years, is a musical marvel. His singing invariably provides listeners with a divine musical experience.
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Bismillah Khan
The shehnai is perhaps the most popular of all the instruments in Indian music, because it sounds extremely sweet. It is an ancient wind instrument played all over India.
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Gulam Ali Khan
While film stars continued to fascinate the people with their singing and acting, a new class of gifted classical singers and instrumentalists was being born.
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Kesarbai Kerkar
Goa is world famous for its scenic beauty as well as its mineral wealth. Besides this, it has given to the world extraordinarily gifted musicians, sculptors, painters, poets, writers and singers.
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Kumar Gandharva
On 8th April 1924 a shining star of Indian classical music was born. On the same date in 1974, Kumar Gandharva completed his 50th year.
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D.V. Paluskar
I first saw Pandit D.V. Palukar as a little boy in the Shree Ram Mandir at Panchavati, Nasik in the year 1925. He was then about 5 or 6 years old and had come with his father, Sangeet Bhaskar Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.
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