Stay updated with breaking news from Jazz yatras. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Soli Sorabjee. | Farrokh Chothia Soli Sorabjee was one of India’s most eminent men. A leading jurist, who almost became governor of Karnataka, except that the government at the Centre changed and the new one junked that idea. That was sad. I can just imagine our staid Raj Bhavan rocking to the sounds of Duke Ellington. But I am getting ahead of my story. I first met Sorabjee in the mid-’70s. Niranjhan Jhaveri, the country’s biggest jazz fan of those times, had the idea of putting together India’s first international jazz festival. And of course he called upon Sorabjee, and me, to join him in that venture. Jazz Yatra it was called. ....
Soli Sorabjee listening to Jazz Music. | Photo Credit: V.V. Krishnan As the President of Capital Jazz, the Jazz India Delhi Chapter, he ensured that the music performed in Jazz Utsav was in tune with the times. Soli knew he was going. ‘We are in the departure lounge waiting for visas to come through,” he told his friend Subash a week or so ago. You wouldn’t have thought that a month earlier, when he was on stage at the India International Centre, bantering with Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Nariman at the launch of his collected works, Down Memory Lane. ....