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Raga on our mind
Updated On: 04 January, 2024 07:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Shriram Iyengar
Novelist Amit Chaudhuri hosts an experimental concert that deconstructs and examines the nature, form and relationship of a raga in Hindustani music
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Time is everything to great art. The pauses in Dilip Kumar’s dialogue delivery, the stillness of Sachin Tendulkar’s head before a straight drive or the momentary silence before Kishori Amonkar would explode into another powerful solo; time can enhance the beauty of an experience that follows. Novelist Amit Chaudhuri calls it ‘the aesthetic of evasion’. This evening, the author will take stage at G5A Warehouse to showcase his insights about this aesthetic, his exploration of Hindustani classical music and its integral component — the raga.
Music has been embedded in Chaudhuri’s life and literature. He grew up around the traditions of Rabindra Sangeet and Nazrul Geeti as practiced by his mother. While Western pop was his first love as a teenager, he soon learnt Hindustani classical under the tutelage of Pandit Govind Jaipurwale of the Kunwar Shyam gharana. It is here that his curiosity about authorship in Indian classical music was sparked.
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