What I still get high on without a drop of alcohol and drug
It was around February in 1999, 25 years ago in my final year of LLB that I first came to experience the beauty, depth, width, power and grip of Pandit Kumar Gandharv's music when my law teacher Prof. BB Pande lent me his audio cassette from which I copied the nirgun bhakti songs sung by Pandit Kumar Gandharv. The first song in that collection was Aau kalandar kesava... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCP0o6xWlaQ&ab_channel=KumarGandharva-Topic And I must say that I was immediately mesmerised, surprised and got drunk and high without any drop of alcohol or drugs; especially when a few months later on a bus trip to Mussoorie, I listened to it on a Sony portable cassette player multiple times. And the effect, the hangover and the addiction continues happily till date. Even though I distinctly remember seeing an article in the India Today magazine of 1994 that announced his passing away early that year, it wasn't be to until 5 years later that I was to learn about him and his ...