I'm thrilled to note that BharatRatna, the highest civilian award has be conferred on the giant of Hindustani Music, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi. Its a moment of great joy for millions of his fans like me. I started listening to his Daasavaanis (kannada bhajans, if you will), some 20-25yrs back and never knew that would be the starting point of my interest in Hindustani Music. I started buying Panditji's albums and now I've almost all of his albums and some mp3 files from live concerts.
Panditji is now about 86yrs old and even he was hospitalized, he came back and sung in the annual Sawai Gandhrwa Music festival that he has started in memory of his guru. Will pray god that Panditji lives for several more years.
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