Asavari & Associates Comment On This Article Below. Return to the article Jay Javeri comments : Rajan I always thoroughly enjoy all your articles. Wonder where all those priceless mehfil recordings are hidden - and wonder when some enlightened soul will take the trouble to release them commercially. Not fair for the rest of us to be deprived of these treasures! Anyway, apropos your dissertation on Asawari - I enjoyed it, except that it seems too heavily tilted in favour of the komal rishabh flavour. I find this flavour distinctly melancholic and dull - of course, this is a matter of opnion. But I was surprised that you had only one solitary sample of the R-flavour - one of my faves! Here are some suggestions that I have (of course, you may already know these):- 1. Piya te kahan gayo (Toofan Aur Diya, Vasant Desai, Lata) 2. Raam hai mahaan (don't know film available on the Music India label, Hridaynath, Lata) 3. Payaliya jhankaar sajaniya (Bhimsen Joshi, EMI India recording early 90s) And, since you have so many snippets of the r-flavour, may I add one more:- Woh dekho jalaa ghar kisika (Film Anpadh, Madan Mohan, Lata) - perhaps not true blue r-brand Asavari, but thereabouts nonetheless. See what I mean about melancholic, dull and full of self-pity? Cheers, anyways! Sudheer Tambe comments : YOu can consider including under Jaunpuri, the Marathi Natyageet, '' Prem bhave jeev jagi ha natala''. Once again thank you for the very enjoyable music site Hs Lallie comments : Hi i am intrigued to know why your references to Ali Akbar Khan always refer to him as the 'naked emperor'. HS Lallie Dedalus comments : Intrigued by yr statement, ''The augmented rishab facilitates fast tAns so dear to the Khayaliyas over the original S r M movement.'' Why would shuddh rishabh make it easier to spin out a fast taan? Particularly intrigued because you are not talking of an instrument here where some notes are easier to play fast than others.... Matt Rahaim comments : Dear Rajan, I learned the Jaunpuri vilambit bandish as "so ab rang ghuliya", not "dhuliya." Thank you for these valuable articles. Best, Matt Rajan P. Parrikar comments : Yes, it is "ghuliya." I think I have mentioned elsewhere that a few (minor) emendations such as these are overdue in some of the articles. I just haven't gotten to doing it yet.