Basavaraj rajguru biography examples

It was a propitious move initiated by a chance meeting with the founder of the Kirana gharana,Ustad Abdul Karim Khan,who identified in the young girl the makings of a future musical genius. This was to result in a long and sustained training for little Gangubai who would travel the thirty kilometres between Hubli and Kundagol by train for thirteen years before she was permitted to come out on stage. It was propitious for her that her “gurubhai” happened to be Pandit Bhimsen Joshi,eight years her junior,who was given the responsibility of escorting Gangubai back to the station every evening. The story goes that Bhimsen Joshi would ask her to repeat what she learnt that day from the master and then sing it back to her as a special form of his own riyaaz.

Gangubai Hanagal’s autobiography in Kannada Nanna Badukina Haadu (The Song of My Life),published in 2004 and later translated into English,gives some extraordinary insight into this reticent and withdrawing personality who had a continuous performing life of almost seventy years without a single reported instance of any tantrums or publicity-seeking stunts. The autobiography contains a mild social rebuke at the situation of the music world where she say

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