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Sheila Dhar`s autobiographical stories, essays and memories are classics of modern Indian prose. An accomplished singer, the world she inhabitated included renowned north Indian classical musicians such as Begum Akhtar, Siddheshwari Bai, Fayyaz and Niaz Ahmed Khan, Kesar Bai Kerkar, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Bhimsen Joshi. No writer has ever conveyed the ethos of this world and the quirk of its denizens with such wit, irreverence, perceptiveness and empathy.
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Sheila Dhar studied at Hindu College,Delhi,and obtainted her MA in english from Boston University. Though she wrote essays and stories a skill possessed by the rarest of raconteurs, the passion of her life was Hindustani classical music, which she performed, studied, and wrote about with profound insight and an uncommon wit.She served on the board of the Sangeet Natak Akademi and was advisor for music to the Indian Council of Cultural Relation.
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...contains some of the most thoughtful, most perceptive, and certainly the funniest writing about Indian classical music that I have ever read. --Amitav Ghosh
...makes very good reading. Nothing of the kind has been published before. --Khushwant Singh
...makes very good reading. Nothing of the kind has been published before. --Khushwant Singh
...makes very good reading. Nothing of the kind has been published before. --Khushwant Singh
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- PublisherOrient Blackswan
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 8178244632
- ISBN 13 9788178244631
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages311
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