When terrible events occur, they occur in a bulk! This year has been probably one of those dreadful years in the music arena wherein the despair, gloom and agony just doesnt seem to pass by. By the time you are recovering from one shock, we are hit in our face with one more devastating setback. But somewhere today the heavens will be sounding heavenly in the real sense, with all the maestros celebrating a 'mehfil' there.. wish I was a part of the audience there, even if that means leaving this mehfil on this earth here..
USTAD SULTAN KHAN.. the pioneer of an instrument whose chords when struck feel as if someone is strucking the chords of your heart.. the man who made this extremely difficult to play instrument look extremely delicate with the sheer dexterity of his hand and unsurpassable passion for music... the connoisseur of music who travelled globally, collaborated internationally, expanded his horizons through the generations and musicians across generations.. the man whose music made the listener enter the zone of tranquility and trance.. the genius, the master, the legend, the stalwart.. all seems so distant today as we have lost him forever.
His was the one who gave Sarangi a global face.. and somewhere today that Sarangi is left stranded, faceless, alone in a corner.. its time to revive it, time to stand up and salute this impeccable personality with all the possible dignity, honesty and reverance! The innumerable blissful moments that he has embedded in our lives are all clustered today to bow down in memory and admiration of this legend. 
I have so much to say and so much to post, but somewhere by feet are stopping by this Bhairavi Jugalbandi with the eminent Sitarist Ustad Rais Khan and Pandit Anindo Chatterjee on the Tabla. 
'Shayad insaano'n ki is dharti par is sangeet sartaj ka ye aakhri paigaam hoga.'

We have had posts expatiating Ustad Ji's work in the classical domain, ghazal domain, non-film modern mix domain.. here is Ustad Sultan Khan in the Thumri domain of music and who else that the Thumri Samrangni Shobha Gurtu to join him...