From a Lively Child to a Hindustani Classical Maestro: Remembering Pandit Jasraj's Music & Spirit

Born in a village in Haryana in 1930, Pandit Jasraj had moved to Hyderabad at a very early age. But his father died on the morning he was to be appointed a court musician. Young Jasraj started playing the tabla with his accomplished musician brothers Pandit Maniram and Pandit Pratap Narayan. However, after being ill-treated by a senior musician, he quit the tabla and took to classical singing.

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