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00:00Rupandey Banshah, Narayan Rao Patwardhan and Vilas Rao Khandekar.
00:07And after that, for 25 years, I have been a student of Pandit Rajan Sajan Mishraji.
00:13Today, I had the opportunity to give a homage to Manju Bhai.
00:19So, I chose to sing.
00:22Raga Gavati and Tilak Shyam, both are ragas that are heard more in instruments.
00:28They are less heard in songs.
00:31But Manju Bhai's influence and Manju Bhai's memory, I chose to sing.
00:39And today, I gave a presentation here at Saptak.
00:49Namaskar. My name is Allarakha Kalavand.
00:52And currently, I have come from Kolkata for the Saptak Festival.
00:57But more than half of my life, I was brought up in Gujarat, Ahmedabad.
01:09And when my grandfather passed away, Saptak was the place where I found myself to be nourished musically
01:25and how to stay connected with music.
01:30Saptak gave me that environment.
01:32Manju Bhai, like a mentor, she was definitely a guru of mine.
01:38And like a mentor, like an advisor, like a mother, she took care of me a lot.
01:46She took care of me and talked to me about ragas and bandishes.
01:51Where is it going wrong? How is it going?
01:54I got all these things from Manju Bhai a lot.
01:57And after my grandfather, I was suddenly thinking where should I go?
02:00What should I do?
02:02Like education, I went to Attoxa.
02:04So in a way, Manju Bhai did the work of water and shade on a drying tree for me.
02:12And what should I say about Saptak?
02:15Saptak was like a home for me.
02:18Where I was brought up, being a musician,
02:24how to think and think about playing music.
02:27Nandan Kaka was the one who made us stubborn.
02:31He always encouraged us with his senior artists.
02:37He supported us a lot.
02:40Similarly, Manju Bhai always taught us about playing music.
02:46And we used to get an atmosphere.
02:49Saptak's festivals and programs used to light up.
02:53At least 10 to 12 programs a year, Saptak's involvement used to happen.
02:58We used to listen to great artists.
03:01And from then on, we had a desire to sit with these people.
03:08Or to be like them.
03:12I don't know how much journey is left.
03:16And we are walking on the path shown.
03:21Coming to Saptak this time, I feel very sad.
03:26Because our Guru is not here.
03:29We used to sit in the front row.
03:34And we used to watch from the top of the stage.
03:37In these two years, our garden was destroyed.
03:43Those flowers, whose fragrance will remain till the end of time.
03:47And they disappeared from our eyes.
03:52Pandit Ram Narayan ji, Shiv Kumar Sharma ji, Ustad Zakir Hussain ji, Ustad Rashid Khan sahib, Manju Mehta ji.
04:04Our own father.
04:06Whenever I used to be on stage, he used to sit in front of me.
04:11He used to give me the energy of a father.
04:15That my son is doing something.
04:18I miss that happy face.
04:21Manju Mehta ji used to be in front of me.
04:23Rajan Sajan ji, Pandit Rajan Sajan ji, Pandit Kishan Maharaj ji.
04:28I have been fortunate to listen to such people through Saptak.
04:33Sitting among such people, I learned the etiquette.
04:39How to play music and how to sit among them.
04:43Which is very difficult in today's time.
04:46Because everyone is learning to play music.
04:49But the culture of playing music is missing from Saptak.
04:54We got that from Saptak.
04:56Saptak Festival.
04:58When it used to be in Kashiram.