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Nirody made a career in the insurance sector, but spent all his free time on music. For the more than four decades that Nirody lived in Mumbai, till his retirement in 1995, he studied music with stalwarts such as SCR Bhat, Gurudutt Heblekar, Dinkar Kaikini and Chidandand Nagarkar, besides Ginde. “I am very glad that I did it,” said Nirody in April, in his brother’s flat in Mumbai, a city where he spent most of his working life before retiring to Karnataka. Beginning afresh, Nirody is probably the first person to have completed the task, a century after Bhatkhande finished his magnum opus. But he passed away in 1994 after recording compositions in only three volumes of Kramik.
One of Nirody's gurs, Pandit KG Ginde, had begun a similar exercise to record Bhatkhande’s compositions while he was at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, a modern gurukul in Kolkata. The volumes include 300 of Bhatkhande’s own compositions, besides those he collected from others. In March, Nirody released his renditions on two CDs, along with a book, titled Samarpan, containing the lyrics. Working almost daily for six years, the Mysore-based Indudhar Nirody, 81, sang and recorded the nearly 2,000 compositions that Bhatkhande published in his staggering six-volume Kramik Pustak Malika. ‘He is only 8’: In Bihar, a mother fights for release of minor son arrested after communal clashĪ century after pioneering Hindustani music scholar VN Bhatkhande travelled the length and breadth of the subcontinent cajoling and coaxing secretive hereditary musicians into revealing the lyrics and tunes of nearly 1,700 compositions, another musician has completed the monumental task of singing and recording all of them.The cost of Telangana’s drive to plant two billion trees.‘Your real mother is India’: How Jawaharlal Nehru inspired Parikshat Sahni to return home.Why Gandhi disliked the fountain pen: He thought it would metamorphose villages into cities.Why did Mughal emperor Jahangir issue these rare and singular astrology-themed coins?.
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