Gharana
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Price: Rs. 540. Suresh Sundaresan's 'Gharana' is a captivating novel that masterfully portrays the rich history of Indian gharanas spanning a century, the profound guru-disciple relationships, the enduring rural life in India, deeply rooted in tradition and religious harmony and fostered by music. It flows like a gentle rain of Hindustani music, making it an essential read in this era of growing interpersonal distance. Benyamin, writer This delightful novel takes you on a journey with the quirky and colourful characters that populate the world of Hindustani classical music. It is filled with the stories, legends and micro-histories about a rich universe that is gradually fading out. Namita Deendayal, author This novel places before us the recent history of Hindustani music, its many geographies and maps, its protagonists artists, patrons, students the heartbreaks and joys, the politics and deep relationships. Woven into the fine descriptions of raga and bandish, of the fine arts of singing and indeed of listening, are the 'bigger' stories that resonate with issues around gender, community, cataclysmic events like Partition, patronage and the codifying of traditions once more open-ended. Vidya Rao, singer, author