“In Benares, the tradition was not just to listen to music but to consume it,” Rajan Mishra said in the film, using an alternative name for their hometown, Varanasi. Rajan Mishra died April 25 at St Stephen’s Hospital in New Delhi. His father, Hanuman Prasad Mishra, was considered one of India’s greatest players of the sarangi, a bowled, short-necked string instrument that is often featured in Indian classical music. Rajan Mishra studied arts and sociology at Benares Hindu University. Rupinder Mahindroo, a friend who teaches Indian classical music outside New Delhi, recalled hearing the brothers sing for the first time in 1979 in Lucknow, India.

Source: bd News24 May 01, 2021 08:01 UTC