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 amazing recovery from TB which led to the loss of one lung and his amazingly powerful rendition of Kabir bhajans.
My favourite composition of course remains 'Ud jayega hans akela, jug darshan ka mela...' and that's because back on 18th January 2009 Sunday afternoon, I was at the Gandhi Memorial museum in Bidla House, Delhi where they had put up a sound and light show on Gandhiji's last few minutes to this particular song of Ud jayega hans akela and it took me to another level of a spiritual experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKc3gy-SHmE&ab_channel=MuditaMusings
Coming back to today, it's the timeless master's 100th birth anniversary and I got to learn some more about Pandit Kumar Gandharv through this article by Sopan Joshi.
Naman to the timeless Master 😌😌😌🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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 amazing recovery from TB which led to the loss of one lung and his amazingly powerful rendition of Kabir bhajans.
My favourite composition of course remains 'Ud jayega hans akela, jug darshan ka mela...' and that's because back on 18th January 2009 Sunday afternoon, I was at the Gandhi Memorial museum in Bidla House, Delhi where they had put up a sound and light show on Gandhiji's last few minutes to this particular song of Ud jayega hans akela and it took me to another level of a spiritual experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKc3gy-SHmE&ab_channel=MuditaMusings
Coming back to today, it's the timeless master's 100th birth anniversary and I got to learn some more about Pandit Kumar Gandharv through this article by Sopan Joshi.
Naman to the timeless Master 😌😌😌🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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