Why was Banaras so important to Bismillah Khan
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Banaras is so important to Bismillah Khan because he used to play shehnai at there.
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BY RAMACHANDRA GUHA
The spirit of Bismillah Khan is the spirit of Varanasi, an irreducibly composite city...
IN a delicious paradox that can only be Indian, the man who best embodied the spirit of the holy Hindu city of Varanasi was a Muslim. Although he was born in Bihar, Bismillah Khan moved to Varanasi as a young man, and lived there until he died, spending some seven decades in an old, crumbling haveli, surrounded by his shehnais, a large extended family, and an even larger circle of hangers-on.
BY RAMACHANDRA GUHA
The spirit of Bismillah Khan is the spirit of Varanasi, an irreducibly composite city...
IN a delicious paradox that can only be Indian, the man who best embodied the spirit of the holy Hindu city of Varanasi was a Muslim. Although he was born in Bihar, Bismillah Khan moved to Varanasi as a young man, and lived there until he died, spending some seven decades in an old, crumbling haveli, surrounded by his shehnais, a large extended family, and an even larger circle of hangers-on.
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