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SRA crowns Sandhya

11 November 2005

It is only appropriate that ITC SRA should kick off the winter of classical music with its 13th annual show starting on Friday – an event that is eagerly awaited by music lovers. There is a new dimension given to the Sammelan this year with the ITC Award going to Sandhya Mukherjee, the nightingale who has reeled the adhunik scene for more than half a century. But though she had fetched an unmatched reputation singing for films and for music companies, her roots lay in the classical world with the guidance she had received from maestros like Jamini Ganguly, Chinmoy Lahiri and A T Kanan. She had also imbibed her musical skills from the great Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and after his death, from Munawar Ali Khan and continued to sung in the Patiala tradition.