Panditji’s family includes his late wife Maya Chawla, his son Dr Vishal Chawla, and two daughters; the late Vidushi Bindu Chawla and Gajra Kottary.

Panditji directed a 3-year research project for the Indian Council for Social Science Research (1985-1988) on the Teaching Systems and Methods of Hindustani Music, both at universities and in the...

Panditji is the author of Hansaa Ke Bain, a collection of 101 poems in Hindi, published by Rajkamal Prakashan. Tinged with a philosophy of attachment, with detachment, many of his...

Panditji is the author of the much acclaimed Living Idioms in Hindustani Music, a dictionary of terms and terminology collected over a lifetime, which was first published by Vikas Publishing...

Panditji composed music for theatre, feature films and documentaries as well as teleserials and teleplays. He was the Music Director for Hindustani Theatres in the 1960s. During the period 1949-1956...

First trained under the guidance of Prof. B.N. Datta, Panditji became a disciple of Ustad Amir Khan in 1948. He was closely associated with the Ustad for almost two decades....

Pandit Amarnath, a musical genius, was widely acknowledged as the foremost exponent of the Indore gharaana, pioneered by his guru, the late Ustad Amir Khan Saheb. Born in 1924 in...

In the manner of the legendary court-composers of the Hindustani tradition, Pandit Amarnathji has contributed over 200 original khayaal compositions and several ragas to the nation’s classical repertoire. Among the...