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Music of kings lives through shehnai (The Telegraph India)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:01:45 GMT

... said. He added that his family hailed from the neighbourhood in Benares that gave the world Ustad Bismillah Khan. “Our family has known Khansaheb closely and I, too, follow his style,” he said.All the musicians who play at the nahabatkhana are government-employed and are paid by the Debottar Trust Board, the chairman of which is the district magistrate. The board looks after...

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Maestro’s Legacy Part of India’s Composite Culture, Says Prime Minister (nandigramunited)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:43:00 GMT

Press Information Bureau Government of India ****** Postage Stamp Released on Shehnai Legend Ustad Bismillah Khan Maestro’s Legacy Part of India’s Composite Culture, Says Prime Minister New Delhi : August 22, 2008 The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh released a commemorative postage stamp on Shehnai Maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan on his death anniversary yesterday. The Department...

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Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan's second death anniversary observed (Big News Network.com)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:01:56 GMT

Mumbai, Aug 22 (IANS) In an effort to make Indian classical music more popular among the youth, a disciple of legendary shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan held a concert here on his second death anniversary, complete with some rare musical instruments.

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Prime minister releases stamp on Bismillah Khan (India eNews)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:30:32 GMT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday released a commemorative postage stamp on shehnai legend Ustad Bismillah Khan here, terming it 'a token of our nation's and our government's respect for him'.

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Prime minister releases stamp on Bismillah Khan (Thaindian News)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:04:50 GMT

New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday released a commemorative postage stamp on shehnai legend Ustad Bismillah Khan here, terming it “a token of our nation’s and our government’s respect for him”. “The release of this commemorative postage stamp in memory of Khan saheb is a token of our nation’s and [...]

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Sams due (Indian Express)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:05:28 GMT

... that even vaguely suggests elitism. The only two awardees this century, Lata Mangeshkar and Bismillah Khan, were carefully apolitical choices. There was a time when there was a consensus about the sort of person that could be considered emblematic of what we wanted India to be. That consensus has been replaced by clamour. There is sustained pressure, analogous to the competition for...

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Echoes of Benaras (vol - 1) - a tribute to Ustad Bismillah Khan (BwT)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:31:45 GMT

I have yet to meet a great artist who is Hindu/Muslim. ना सम्भलोगे तो मिट जाओगे ऎ हिन्दोस्तान वालों, तुम्हारी दास्तान तक भी ना होगी दास्तानों में । -इक़बाल (na samjhoge to mit jaoge ai Hindostan walo,Tumhari dastan tak bhi na hogi dastanon men. - Iqbal)

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SP did nothing for Muslims, says Congress document (rediff News)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:18:18 GMT

... Premji as one of the richest industrialists, frontline actors ranging from Dilip Kumar to Shahrukh Khan as also artistes like Bismillah Khan to Amjad Ali Khan and a host of players including Sania Mirza ."May it be the Samajwadi Party or the BSP, they did nothing for the Muslims but only made tall claims, misled the Muslims by creating confusion in the community and...

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A spectrum of shades (Hindu)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:18:39 GMT

... amongst this plethora of fauna are the sketches of musical stalwarts M.S. Subbulakshmi and Ustad Bismillah Khan. However, the sketch of the bald eagle is the artist’s own favourite. “The eye took two days for me to master. What becomes time consuming in such pictures is capturing the minutest details like shadows and reflections,” he says. “The present scenario of modernization and...

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duets from india [vilayat khan (sitar), bismillah khan (shehnai)] (1967) (BwT)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:23:52 GMT

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Afghan Army Readies for Taliban Battle (ABC News)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:31:32 GMT

Afghanistan's army chief, Gen. Bismillah Khan, is in Kandahar preparing his men for a potentially major battle with the Taliban.

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Life is a song (Hindu)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:15:21 GMT

... the Gwalior gharana, Meeta is a torchbearer of her generation. She recently received the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, given to promising artistes under 35. But for this daughter and disciple of veteran vocalist L.K. Pandit, the awards started early — when she was a Delhi schoolgirl and won the Golden Voice of India award. That, Meeta recalls, was...

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C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Bismillah Khan (Crooks and Liars)

Mon, 19 May 2008 03:00:13 GMT

Ever since July of 2006 when we first introduced a live snippet from Bismillah Khan, the world's greatest master of the shenai, people have been hungry for more, especially since Bismillah died, at age 90, a month after our initial post. Bismillah Khan was a living embodiment of Indian spiritual secularism; he was a Muslim [...]

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The shehnai's fading lilt (A writer and his web-blahg)

noreply@blogger.com (Samanth) — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:29:00 GMT

On a ragged piece of cardboard, in an open-fronted shop in a pinched lane in Gadauliya, a particularly congested part of Varanasi, sits Mohammad Safi. In a city that was once home to Ustad Bismillah Khan and to over a dozen shehnai makers, Safi is now one of only two remaining craftsmen of the instrument, both ageing, both without apprentices to carry on the craft after them. From this...

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Two Canadian, two Afghan troops wounded in suicide attack - Summary (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:10:05 GMT

Kabul - Four soldiers - two Afghan troops and two Canadians serving under NATO command - were wounded in a suicide attack in southern Kandahar province, officials said Friday. The incident took place in the village of Nalgam in the Zirai district of southern Kandahar province on Friday morning, district police chief Bismillah Khan said. According to Khan, the suicide bomber died...

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Theatre as a vehicle for social change (Hindu)

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:12:12 GMT

... best agents of social change. This multi-faceted theatre personality, who recently won the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for his achievements in this field, spoke to The Hindu about the relevance of theatre in the State and about what inspires him. It has been nearly 10 years since Mr. Ganesha joined Ninasam, a prestigious Karnataka-based theatre group. K.V. Subbanna, the founder...

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SwaUtsab (BwT)

Sun, 11 May 2008 19:55:55 GMT

India Today Swar Utsav 2001. 21-25 Nov. Duet: Bismillah Khan And Rais Khan 1. Raga Yaman Kalyan 41:56 2. Dhun 15:06

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Kishan Maharaj, passes away (Times of India)

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:55:15 GMT

VARANASI: Tabla maestro Pandit Kishan Maharaj, who set the standard of Hindustani music after a public performance when he was only 11, died on Sunday night. Maharaj, 85, was undergoing treatment at a hospital in his native town and never recovered from a massive stroke he suffered a week ago. His death comes less than two years after shehnai wizard Ustad Bismillah Khan passed away in...

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Mukherjee, Tendulkar, Bhosle awarded Padma Vibhushan (Daily News Analysis)

Mon, 05 May 2008 16:38:00 GMT

... author Dominique Lapierre, teacher Shyama Chona and classical musician Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar received the Padma Bhushan while FICCI Secretary General Amit Mitra, sports person Bula Chowdhury and journalists Vinod Dua and Rajdeep Sardesai were presented with the Padma Shri.Mukherjee is the first ever serving Cabinet minister to get a Padma award.The best round of applause was...

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Mukherjee, Tendulkar, Bhosle awarded Padma Vibhushan (rediff News)

Mon, 05 May 2008 16:21:47 GMT

... author Dominique Lapierre, teacher Shyama Chona and classical musician Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar received the Padma Bhushan, while FICCI Secretary General Amit Mitra, sportsperson Bula Chowdhury and journalists Vinod Dua and Rajdeep Sardesai were presented with the Padma Shri.Mukherjee is the first ever serving Cabinet minister to get a Padma award.The best round of applause was...

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