The bandishes came to him at high moments of revelation,  jab haal chadhta hai. There was always some external inspiration, of course, that escalated him to this peak of samadhi, and the...

A teacher par excellence, he revolutionized gharana talim or teaching, innovating techniques and creating a teaching method that not only saved decades of learning time, but has became a foundation...

Pandit Amarnathji trailblazed a new outlook to the lyric of the khayal in the 20th century. He matched the antarmukhi gana or inward-faced singing of his gharana with antarmukhi bol,...

He moved on to becoming a disciple of the legendary Ustad Amir Khan, in the year 1942. Despite his deep humility towards the meditative style of his guru, Ustad Amir...

Pandit Amarnathji, the first son of his father, Shri Shiv Dayal Chawla, and grandson of Lala Devi Dayal, was born in the year 1924 in Jhang, a small town close...

Panditji performed widely, both in India and abroad. He was the first Indian musician to perform at the prestigious Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, USA. Over the years he performed...

His father Ustad Shahmir Khan was the first master of the newly-established Indore gharaana and his grandfather Change Khan was a singer in the court of Bahadurshah Zafar. Khansaheb moved...

It was a new gharaana of music which had its roots in the Bhindi Bazar gharaana, which flourished in Bombay in the first half of the twentieth century. The first...