Question

Justify bismillah khan as a true indian

Answer 1

Had Ustad been alive, he would have been 102 years old and his shehnai 96. Had he been here today, perhaps then Kabir would also have been here and the melodious tunes of his shehnai would have mingled with the ever-flowing Ganges to spread the message of peace and harmony around the country. Had Ustad been alive, the festival of Janmashtami would have echoed with the tunes of Vrindavani Sarang and during Moharram, tears would have flowed ceaselessly from thousands of eyes because of the mournful melodies floating from his shehnai. Had he been there, the temple of Baba Vishwanath would have opened only after hearing his Shehnai.
But Ustad is no more here. He was a Shia muslim but classical music bestowed him with the title ‘Khan’. Banaras and Ustad were inseparable. He carried Banaras within his soul. But he was born in Bihar, on March 21, 1916.
Yateendra Mishra has carried some excerpts of his conversation with Ustad in his book ‘ Sur Ki Baradari ’. At one point, Ustad says, “Music is a space where there is no caste or religion. Music doesn’t consider any religion bad.” He used to say that God is one as ‘sur’ (note) is one. He used to play the mourning tunes on Moharram with his eyes brimming with tears and on Holi fill the atmosphere with zeal and joy with raag ‘Kafi’. Even as he used to offer prayers five times a day, praying to Goddess Saraswati was just as important.






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Answer 2

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Undoubtedly, Bismillah Khan was a true Indian. Despite being a devout Muslim, he used to play shehnai in temples. He loved his country very much. When one of his students asked him to head a shehnai school in the USA, he refused to say he would not find the river Ganga there. He once said that whatever he was out of India, he kept on yearning for his motherland and missed the Ganga sorely.

On getting Bharat Ratna he said that the parents of the country should teach their children music and supported it by saying that even the West was coming to learn it. He was the true representative of India and the Core Indian values. Simple living and high thinking have been India's age-old value which he kept with himself. He never believed in the glamour and the words of artificiality. He always believed in simplicity which is an epitome of Indian civilization.

Hence, he was a true Indian.

yearning - desire, wish

simplicity - purity

glamour - beauty