India’s Great Masters: A Photographic Journey into the Heart of Classical Music
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photographs by raghu rai; text by ashok vajpeyi
harpercollins india,
168 pages, rs 3500
Raghu Rai has been photographing the masters of Indian classical music since the early 1980s. This book presents his tribute to 13 of them including Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Bismillah Khan, Bhimsen Joshi, Kumar Gandharva, Kishori Amonkar, Mallikarjun Mansoor, and MS Subbulakshmi. Vajpeyi’s text provides us with glimpses of the musicians’ lives on and off stage.
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