Sonu Nigam has lent his voice for Mere Zehen Mein , a song he has recorded for the film Bekhudi , starring Adhyayan Suman.Adhyayan reunites with Sonu Nigam after he sang Soniyo for Raaz 2 . Mere Zehen Mein hass been written and directed .
How the river and the ancient city defined his art
Pt. Rajan Mishra’s music had a universal appeal but his heart belonged to Benaras. He enjoyed performing at renowned global venues but longed to return to his ancestral home in Kabir Chaura.
‘Swarangan, Padma Bhushan Rajan Sajan Mishra’ reads the black marble name plate outside the brothers’ large renovated house in one of the many narrow lanes of the Kalakar Colony. Though the brothers are not the only musicians and the only Mishras living here, they definitely are the star attraction of the colony that birthed the Benaras gharana. The stalwarts, who took the gharana to great heights, established their gurukul here, which has groomed several musicians, who have in turn further explored the gharana’s distinct gayaki.
Now only the silence prevails! April 28, 2021, 9:51 PM IST
Vivek Sachdeva is a professor at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at GGSIP University in New Delhi.
‘April is the cruellest month’ says T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land, a poem he wrote almost hundred years ago after the Spanish flu pandemic. Who could have imagined what deaths and burials we would be talking about today! The COVID19 pandemic has cost us many lives. Padma Bhushan Pt. Rajan Mishra, whom we all call Bade Guru ji, is the latest corona casualty in India. Born in 1951, he started his journey from Kabir Chaura, Banaras, which is also known