Amjad Ali Khan interview

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Nick H
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Re: Amjad Ali Khan interview

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Seeing him play, in London, a long time ago, was part of my falling in love with Indian music.

shankarank
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Re: Amjad Ali Khan interview

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He said we had taken the angrezi and angreziyat from British rulers but never tried to imbibe their good qualities.
When they are all able to hold their coughing and sneezing thru the performance - we are not even able to hold our hunger and whatever else thru the tani.

Shri KRM in his interview to Sun TV - mentioned that western audience whether they like the performance or not remain until the end.

I know we are an elastic culture - on timings and everything - we have more parental attention to give and are generally high maintenance. But we could be more sensitive about it,

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