A letter from Karachi and a Malkauns, says S Gopala Krishnan. Sheila Dhar in ‘Raga ‘n’ Josh’ recollects memories of Ustad Bundu Khan and she passionately says about the personal pain that the Ustad undergone while deciding to shift his base to Pakistan after the partition. Bundu Khan stayed back in Delhi for a year after independence. As his children and wife had already moved to the newly born nation, Ustad was in complete loneliness in his Delhi house. Sheila Dhar’s father, very close to the musician, had helped Bundu Khan to move to Karachi. Let me quote from the book: “My father received only one extraordinary letter of thanks three months after his departure. He had dictated it to someone in Urdu and signed his name in his shaky, illiterate scrawl. The letter carried two sentences; the first said that he would never forget all that my father had gone for him. The second was somewhat longer and said ‘Here are the important tans of Malkaus.’ My father father was so touched and wept. He said he would never need to use the Malkaus taans in his life, but Ustad Bundu Khan’s intention was to offer him what he considered most precious. “ (Raga ‘n Josh, Sheila Dhar, Hachette India, 2011,Page 75) Sampurna Malkauns: Ustad Bundu Khan: https://youtube/watch?v=LBCAv3QMS5Y
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