What year was the sitarist and aunt of Sheema Mukherjee born?
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Sheema Mukherjee Sheema Mukherjee is a British composer and sitar player. She is best known for her work with musical collective Transglobal Underground and The Imagined Village. She is the niece of sitarist Nikhil Banerjee. In 2005, "Billboard" referred to her as a "sitar prodigy".
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Nikhil Banerjee Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee (Bengali: নিখিল রঞ্জন ব্যানার্জী ) (14 October 1931 – 27 January 1986) was an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana. A student of the legendary Baba Allauddin Khan, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was known for his technical virtuosity and clinical execution. Along with Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan, he emerged as one of the leading exponents of the sitar. He was a recipient of the Indian civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.
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Sanjoy Bandopadhyay Sanjoy Bandopadhyay (born September 16, 1954) is a Bengali Hindustani classical sitar player. He is primarily a disciple of Radhika Mohan Maitra and Bimalendu Mukherjee. His performance is a unique synthesis of Senia-Shahjehanpur, Rampur-Senia and Etawah gharana.
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Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay was born on 24 October 1894 in Pandoul, a village of Mithila of Bihar(India). The name of his father is Bipin Bihari Mukherjee and mother's name is Giribala Devi.
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Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an American writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Sujata Nahar Sujata Nahar (Hindi: सुजाता नाहर ; 12 December 1925 – 4 May 2007) was born in Calcutta, and spent her formative years near the poet Rabindranath Tagore. At the age seven she lost her mother. Her father, searching for another meaning to life, turned to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. In this way Sujata also came to Sri Aurobindo in 1935, at age nine. She received private tutoring, and became secretary to Pavitra, the Mother's main disciple. She met Satprem in 1954. Later, the Mother entrusted her with the typing up of her private conversations with Satprem, which later became "The Agenda. " From 1965 to 1973 Sujata regularly accompanied Satprem to his meetings with Mother.
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Anjan Chattopadhyay Anjan Chattopadhyay, the sitar player, born in a Bengali aristocratic family in Calcutta, India, was initiated to the art of sitar playing by his elder brother, a veteran Surbahar player, Pandit Gourisankar Chattopadhyay, a disciple of Pandit Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury. In addition to that he started taking further training from Kalyani Roy, a reputed sitarist and one of the few disciples of Ustad Vilayat Khan. He also had lessons in vocal music from late Muktipada Datta, a representative of Agra Gharana. Anjan also learned tabla under the late Ustad Shaukat Ali Khan of Farukhabad gharana. Anjan lives in Calcutta and teaches music.
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Dwijendranath Tagore Dwijendranath Tagore (Bengali: দ্বিজেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর ) (11 March 1840 – 19 January 1926) was an Indian poet, song composer, philosopher, mathematician, and a pioneer in Bengali shorthand and musical notations.
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Krishna Bhatt Krishna Mohan Bhatt (born 1949) is a sitar player, teacher and scholar from Jaipur, India.
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Anita Guha Anita Guha was an Indian Bengali actress who usually played mythological characters in films. She became known for playing the title role in "Jai Santoshi Maa" (1975). Previously, she had played Sita in other mythological films "Sampoorna Ramayana" (1961), "Shree Ram Bharat Milap" (1965) and, "Tulsi Vivah" (1971). Besides this, she also played notable roles in films like "Goonj Uthi Shehnai" (1959), "Purnima" (1965), "Pyar Ki Rahen "(1959), "Gateway of India" (1957), "Dekh Kabira Roya" (1957) and "Sanjog" (1961).
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Ramprapanna Bhattacharya Ramprapanna Bhattacharya is an Indian classical sitarist of the Etawah Gharana.
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Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (Bengali: উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায়চৌধুরী ), also known as Upendrokishore Ray (উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায় ) (12 May 1863 – 20 December 1915) was a famous Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer, technologist and entrepreneur.
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Bimalananda Mukherjee Bimalananda Mukherjee was an Indian politician, belonging to the Revolutionary Communist Party of India.
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Saskia Rao-de Haas Saskia Rao-de Haas (born 1971) is a virtuoso cellist and composer from the Netherlands based in New Delhi, India. She is married to the sitarist Shubhendra Rao.
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Samar Mukherjee Samar Mukherjee (Bengali: সমর মুখোপাধ্যায় ; 7 November 1913 – 18 July 2013) was an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who served as member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India for the Howrah constituency for three consecutive terms from 1971 to 1984, and as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1986 till 1993. A lifelong bachelor, he made a multidimensional contribution as Party organizer, as writer, as trade unionist and as a Parliamentarian. He was a member of the Polit Bureau from 1978 to 1992, member of the Central Committee since 1966, and the eldest party member during his death in 2013. He also served as the General Secretary of the CITU from 1983 to 1991.
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Meera Mukherjee Meera Mukherjee (1923–1998) was an Indian sculptor and writer, known for bringing modernity to the ancient Bengali sculpting art. She is known to have used innovative bronze casting techniques, improving the Dhokra method employing Lost-wax casting, which she learnt during her training days of the Bastar sculpting tradition of Chhattisgarh. She received the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri from the Government of India in 1992 for her contributions to Arts.
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Mushtaq Ali Khan Mushtaq Ali Khan (20 June 1911 in Banaras – 21 July 1989) and was an Indian sitar, surbahar (and pakhawaj) player. His father Ashiq Ali Khan was a renowned sitar player. His "musical ancestor tree" includes Masit Sen, the originator of Masitkhani Baaj (a slow tempo instrumental composition). He was recognised as the foremost representative of the Senia gharana (style, musical school) of sitar playing in the mid-20th century.
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Lakshmi Krishnamurti Lakshmi Krishnamurti (1 August 1925 – 14 June 2009) was an Indian author and politician. She is the daughter of Indian independence activist S. Satyamurti.
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Papia Sarwar Papia Sarwar (born on 21 November) is a Bangladeshi singer. She is an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, the songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore. She earned Rabindra Award from Bangla Academy in 2013. She was awarded Bangla Academy Fellowship in 2015.
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Nargis Nargis Dutt (born Fatima Rashid, but known by her screen name Nargis; June 1, 1929 – May 3, 1981), was an Indian film actress. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema, she made her screen debut as a child in "Talash-E-Haq" in 1935, but her acting career began in 1942 with "Tamanna" (1942). During a career that spanned from the 1940s to the 1960s, Nargis appeared in numerous commercially successful as well as critically appreciated films, many of which featured her alongside actor Raj Kapoor. She was the younger sister of the well-known actor Anwar Hussain.
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Anandamayi Ma Anandamayi Ma (30 April 1896 – 27 August 1982) was an Indian (from Bengal) spiritual leader. Sivananda Saraswati of the Divine Life Society described her as "the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced." Precognition, faith healing and other miracles were attributed to her by her followers. Paramhansa Yogananda translates "Anandamayi" as "joy-permeated". This name was given to her by her devotees in the 1920s to describe what they saw as her habitual state of divine joy and bliss.
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Aarudhra Aarudhra (born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Shankara Sastry) (31 August 1925 – 4 June 1998), was an Indian author, poet, lyricist, translator, publisher, dramatist, playwright, and an expert in Telugu literature. Aarudhra is the nephew of Telugu poet Sri Sri, and is also known for his works exclusively in Telugu cinema as a screenwriter, dialogue writer, and story writer, and is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987.