Short Takes: Kamod and Shyam Kalyan Comment On This Article Below. Return to the article Aftab Datta comments : Hello. Just a question, are you sure that excerpt from Raagini is really Amanat Ali and Fateh Ali. It doesnt sound like them at all, actually more like Amir Khan and someone else. I was just wondering. Aftab The author responds: The cassette jacket of RAAGINI credits Amir Khan but that is in error. Clearly there are two singers to begin with. Harmandir Singh's Hindi Film Music Encyclopaedia cites Amanat Ali and Fateh Ali as the singers; the compiler apparently verified this piece of information with the music director O.P. Nayyar. Warm regards, Rajan P. Parrikar Dr.K.P.Paranjape comments : Dear Mr.Parrikar, Many thanks for writing such informative articles. I was thoroughly impressed by the masterful & expert selection of excerpts of musical renderings of yesteryears which are hard to listen to nowadays.I am interested in reading Hindustani Sangeet Padhdhati by Pt.V.N.Bhatkhande. Can you please help me? Nagaraja Rao comments : Hi Rajan This is the greatest page I found in my search till now in years. Go on.. Best, Nag, Michigan. Rajeev S. Patke comments : Dear Rajan, I have long appreciated the effort and imagination that have gone into your site. All music lovers owe you a great debt. On making music widely accessible, is there any copyright issue in putting up sound files on one's web as you do? Are these old recordings outside the copyright realm of the original record makers (e.g. HMV?). I ask because on my own web site I have just put up a few trial ram files (and can do many more, as part of the general idea that this wonderful music needs to be shared widely and freely), but don't want to get the server into legal trouble about copyright issues, and would like to ask your advice on the matter. Suhas Agte comments : Do you have Raga Shamkalyan sung by Shrimati Hirabai Badodekar or Shrimati Manik Varma . In my opinion they are really master pieces. "textbook" presentation. Nitin Mitta comments : Dear Rajan ji, I am tabla artist from India who is presently in Boston.I am really grateful to you and to sawf for taking this unique way of presenting old traditional compostions performed by master musicians.It is indeed a opportunity to hear these old maestros.please keep up this good work.I just had a request though, that for me and for all tabla players we would really like you to do one series on tabla maestros and presenting recordings of old maestros.Is there any recording of Ustad Nathu khan of delhi Gharana.I heard from some that there is but I am not sure. Hoping to heard some tabla.Regards, Nitin Anuragraiji.V.Maharaj comments : hello! this is the good attempt for music lovers but my thinking is,it is more gainful if you put the complete records of great Ustad Nazakat Salamat ali Khan and of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Sahib.Hope that you will do needfull for their lovers.please do it or mail me please. R.Tapan Majumder comments : Very good site but I Am unble to play the downloaded audio clips possily du to s/wmimatch. Datta Gumaste comments : Hi Rajan, I loved every bit of this article. Your website is awesome, awesome! Datta. U K. Rudrasen comments : Fantastic Content Very well researched Masterful ! thank you Chetan Joshi comments : Rajan, I started learning ragas few years back. This site has provided me very helpful tips in understanding the basics of few ragas that I have learnt. Thank you for all the efforts you have put in for this website and being a guide for us beginners. Dileep Naik comments : dear mr parrikar, thanks for presenting this wonderful collection of different renderings by so many different artists. I congratulate you and thank you for taking so much efforts on the job.I wish you keep it up.Efforts like this are imp to save and propagate the tradition of hindustani classical music and its close link with hindi filmy music. I am a engineer and business man, who is primarily dedicated to music of all types.For a person like me around the world these short notes on the raga and the tips are very help ful. Please keep writing. dileep naik Abhijit Pathak comments : Dear Rajan: This is indeed an excellent effort by you. It is so convenient and educative for young students to hear many maestros of Hindustani Classical Music on one web site. It must have taken much time and effort to collect such rare but master pieces. I am expressing my sincere gratitude. I wish young generations make use of such web sites to learn Hindustani Classical Music. Abhijit Pathak Dr Narendra Kumar Bhatnagar comments : Dear Mr Parrikkar, It was delightful to hear the exerpts on Kamod and Shyam Kalyaan . More so the brief explanations are really very good for amateur practitioners like me. If you could put up some performances of Gajanan Rao on violin it will be a singular contribution NKBhatnagar