: Au revoir, Guruji: A French student’s tribute to Hindustani musician Yograj Naik #IndiaNEWS Popular culture would like us to believe that musical virtuosity ineluctably comes with personal sacrifice,

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Au revoir, Guruji: A French student’s tribute to Hindustani musician Yograj Naik #IndiaNEWS
Popular culture would like us to believe that musical virtuosity ineluctably comes with personal sacrifice, hardship and suffering. In the Marathi film The Disciple, for instance, the fictitious mythical singer Maai sends us a scary warning: if you wish to embark on the journey of Indian classical music, she says in a cavernous voice, you will have to learn loneliness and hunger – “ekata ani upashi rahayla shika�.Yograj Naik was the very antithesis of this claim. Celebrated in Goa as one of the most talented musicians of his generation, his existence was all but ascetic. Alone? He lived in a house constantly brimming with the pandemonium of innumerable pets and human beings. Hungry? He sported the embonpoint of those who know how to bite into life and enjoy its worldly pleasures.Yograj Naik is no more. At only 52, he passed away in April, carried away by the second wave of Covid-19. Flagbearer of the Etawah gharana, trained under the Padma Shri recipient Ustad Shahi Parvez, top-grade musician for All India Radio, recognised by Hindustani sangeet lovers and Indo-jazz connoisseurs alike – Naik’s demise was a painful loss for Goa’s music galaxy.The artist also left behind a community of devoted disciples, now left alone, craving his...Read more

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