SPIC MACAY For private circulation only Vol.17 - No.1 September 2011 Sandesh To inform & inspire NEWSLETTER National Newsletter of the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth INSIDE PROUD TO SERVE THE NATION SPIC MACAY GETS RAJIV GANDHI SADBHAVANA AWARD 2 Dedications t was a moment of immense .................................... honour and joy for the lakhs Iof volunteers and well wishers of SPIC MACAY when it was 4 presented this year’s Rajiv Gandhi Conceptual Corner National Sadbhavana Award for its I Feel Strongly outstanding contribution to the .................................... promotion of communal harmony, peace and goodwill. 5 The award, which carries a State News sum of Rs 5 lakh and a citation, .................................... was given on August 20, the birth anniversary of Sh. Rajiv Gandhi, 9 by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan 26th National Convention Singh in the presence of Sh. Karan Review Singh, Chairman of the advisory .................................... committee of the award and Sh Rahul Gandhi. Dr. Kiran Seth, 11 Founder Chairperson of the Interview movement, accepted the award. p`QaanamaM~I Daå manamaaohna isaMh ka saMbaaoQana .................................... Instituted in the name of SPIC MACAY kao [sa vaYa- ko sad\Baavanaa pu$skar ko ilayao caunaa gayaa hO. [sa saaosaayaTI nao the late Prime Minister Sh. Rajiv BaartIya Saas~Iya saMgaIt ko ja,iryao hmaaro ivaSaala doSa maoM AaOr KasataOr pr naaOjavaana laaogaaoM maoM 12-13 Gandhi, this was the 19th edition 26th National Convention of the award that is given out ekta kI Baavanaa pOda krnao ko ilayao bahut AcCa kama ikyaa hO.]nhaoMnao BaartIya Saas~Iya Glimpses every year to an individual or saMgaIt¸ laaok klaaAaoM AaOr hstklaaAaoM kao BaI vaZ,avaa idyaa hO.hmaaro saaMskRitk maUlyaaoM ka .................................... an organization who has made &ana saaQaarNa vyai@t kao kranao maoM SPIC MACAY ka ek bahut mah%vapUNa- yaaogadana rha an outstanding contribution to hO. ]naka kama yah dSaa-ta hO ik saMgaIt AaOr saMskRit kI BaaYaa ka ]pyaaoga raYT/I`ya ekta 14 promote communal harmony and ko ilayao bahut p`BaavaI ZMga sao ikyaa jaa sakta hO. Remembrances Earlier recipients of the award maOM samaJata hMU ik yah bahut ja,$rI hO ik hma laaoga Apnao saMgaIt¸ klaa AaOr saaih%ya sao AcCI .................................... to fight terrorism and violence. include Mother Teresa, Ustad trh vaaik,f haoM.hma sabakao yah p`yaasa krnaa caaihyao ik hma ApnaI saaMskRitk Qaraohr kao 16 Bismillah Khan, Lata Mangeshkar, AgalaI pIZ,I ko ilayao saMBaala kr rKoM. Vision 2020 Sunil Dutt, Dilip Kumar, Kapila maOM [sa saaosaayaTI sao jauDo, saBaI laaogaaoM kao maubaarkbaad dota hUM,. SPIC MACAY sahI maayanaaoM .................................... Vatsyayan, Maulana Wahiuddin Khan, Gautam Bhai, Teesta maoM [sa pu$skar kI hkdar hO. Seetalvad and Harsh Mandar 18-22 maOM Aaja SPIC MACAY ko saMsqaapk p`ao ikrNa saoz kI ]PlaivQayaaoM ka BaI KasataOr pr Scholarship Scheme (jointly), Mohd. Yunus, Hiteshwar Saikia and Subhadra Joshi (jointly), ija,Ë krnaa caahuMgaa. saala 1977 maoM [sa saMsqaa kI sqaapnaa krto samaya ]nhaoMnao jaao safr Reports Jagan Nath Kaul, S.N. Subbarao, Sau$ ikyaa qaa vah Aasaana nahIM qaa. ]nakao p`arMBa maoM ijana kiznaa[yaaoM ka saamanaa krnaa pD,a .................................... Swami Agnivesh and Madari ]nasao kao[- saaQaarNa vyai@t jald hI Gabara jaata. laoikna p`aoå saoz nao ihmmat nahI harI.yah Moideen (jointly), K R Narayanan, ]nakI AnaaoKI Sai#sayat ka hI natIjaa hO ik SPIC MACAY [tnaa kuC kr payaa. 23 Nirmala Deshpande, Hem Dutta SPIC MACAY Abroad and N Radhakrishnan. ]nakI kamayaabaI hma sabakao p`orNaa dotI hOM. .................................... Dr Kiran Seth’s Acceptance Speech: Page 23 Delhi Virasat Inauguration : Page 8 1 Sandesh September 2011 DEDICATIONS world for performances before Ust. R. FAHIMUDDIN KHAN DAGAR select audiences. His recordings Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar was an exponent of Dagarbani have even been released in Dhrupad, one of the most pristine and richest forms of Indian classical Switzerland, Germany and Italy. music and represented the 19th generation of Dagar tradition. He was Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar also one of the staunchest supporters of SPIC MACAY and fondly seen was honoured with various awards as the grand daddy of the movement, who would be present at almost among which the prominent ones all major events of the movement. are Sangeet Ratan (1956), Sangeet The distinctive musical idiom of the Dagar family is the Dagarbani, Natak Akademi Award (1993), one of the four traditional styles of Alaap - Dhrupad singing. It is said Dhrupad Ratan(1993), Sahitya Kala to have arisen from the ‘Shuddha Giti’ style mentioned in the ancient Parishad (1996), Indira Gandhi musical treatises like the ‘Sangeet Ratnakar’ of Sharangadev. Hindustani music is indebted to the Dagar Tradition and especially to the innovative Ali Khan Award (1997), Mewar Fellowship (1997), Ustad Hafiz genius of Baba Bahram Khan Dagar who passed away in 1881. Foundation Award (2002), Maharaja Sawai Ishwari Singh Award (2002), The present Dagar generation follows the path laid by him. Ustad Kalidas Award (2002), Bihar Dhrupad Ratan (2002), Rajasthan Sangeet Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar was known not only for the power and Natak Akademi Award (2003), Sangeet Bhushan (2003), Shama Indian spontaneity of his alaap, but also for his rich repertoire of compositions, Cultural Society Award (2004), Lifetime Achievement Award (2005) by some of which are believed to date back to the 12th and 13th centuries. North American Dhrupad Association, Lifetime Achievement Award, As he used to put it, “In the words of my ancestor Shat Shastri Baba by Govt. of Delhi (2007), Padma Bhusan Award (2008), Sangeet Natak Behram Khan Dagar, Dhrupad, as presented within our Dagarbani, is Akademi Ratna Purashkar (Fellowship) (2010) and Ustad Mushtaq Ali ‘raagatmak-swaratmak, shabdatmak, varnatmak, taalatmak-layatmak Khan Lifetime Achievement Award (2011). and rasaatmak. The singer has to portray its kalaatmak, vidyatmak and adhyatmak aspects to do proper justice to it.” He passed away on 27th July 2011. It was the quality of his music that took Fahim sahab all over the A TRUE NAAD YOGI: Pg.15 and was nominated to the Rajya MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN Sabha in 1986. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1991. Maqbool Fida Husain, popularly known as MF, was an eminent MF applied the formal lessons painter of India. He was widely regarded as the “Picasso of India” and of European modernists like Cézanne and Matisse to scenes Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. He influenced a whole generation of artists in the country. from national epics like the Mahabharata, Ramayana and to of whatever hotel room or house he happened to be staying in and the Hindu pantheon. His themes— payingnever maintained for damages a studiowhen buthe checked he spread out. his He canvases created out four on museums the floor usually treated in series—include to showcase his work and had a collection of classic sports cars. topics as diverse as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Ramayana, Mahabharata, produced more than 60,000 paintings. Enormously prolific, a gifted self-promoter and hard bargainer, he the British Raj and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. One of the 1947, he joined the Progressive Artists Group (PGA), founded by Francis most celebrated and internationally recognized Indian artists of the Husain first became well-known as an artist in the late 1940s. In Newton Souza. This was a clique of young artists who wished to break 20th century, he also received recognition as a printmaker, photographer with the nationalist traditions established by the Bengal school of art and to encourage an Indian avant-garde, engaged at an international M.F. Husain died, aged 95, on June 9, 2011, following a heart attack. and filmmaker. and over the next few years, his work was widely seen in Europe and He had been unwell for several months. Prime Minister Manmohan thelevel. US. In In1952, 1955, his he first was solo awarded exhibition the wasprestigious held at Zürich,Padma Switzerland Shri by the Singh said his death was a “national loss”, and President Pratibha Patil Government of India. said his death had “left a void in the world of art.” Through the Eyes of a Painter. It was Talking about Husain’s self-imposed exile and death outside of shown at the Berlin Film Festival and won a Golden Bear (Short Film). India painter Akbar Padamsee said that it was a “pity that a painter as M. F.In Husain 1967, hewas made a special his first invitee film, along with Pablo Picasso at the Sao important as Husain had to die outside his own country because of a Paulo Biennial in 1971. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1973 crowd of miscreants”. 2 Sandesh Sandesh September 2011 September 2011 DEDICATIONS Ust. ASAD ALI KHAN Asad Aali Khan wa s Ust.MEHMOOD DHAULPURI born in 1937 in Alwar in the Mehmood Dhaulpuri was born on March 23, 1954 in the seventh generation of Rudra Dhaulpur District of Rajasthan. He was one of the country’s veena players. His ancestors most acclaimed harmonium players and belonged to a family of were royal musicians in the musicians, most of whom were Sarangi players. When he was eleven, courts of Rampur, U.P. and Jaipur, Harmonium came in to vogue and he promptly took it up. He Rajasthan in the 18th century. His received his early training from his grandfather, Ustad Buddha great-grandfather Rajab Ali Khan was head of the court musicians of Delhi Gharana. Gradually, he developed a style of his own Khan and was finally groomed by Ustad Nasir Ahmed Khan in Jaipur and owned a village and soon became a front ranking harmonium player who land holding. His grandfather accompanied legendary vocalists like Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Pt. Jasraj, Ust.