 His early music education was at the hands of his father and neighbour "Mrs. Myers".His father Pushkar Bahadur, a Nepalese trumpeter moved to Calcutta in the early 1940s to join a European Band in the city, subsequently he changed his name to George Banks.His grandfather, Bakhat Bahadur Budapirti, had composed the Nepalese national anthem "Shreeman Gambhira Nepali" which was the official anthem from 1962 to 2006.