Renowned sitar player Debu Chaudhuri passed away. Pandit Devabrata (Debu) Chaudhuri (1935 \u2013 2021) was an Indian sitarist and teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is considered one of the greatest sitar player of the era with Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is regarded as one of the leading proponents of Senia Style (or Gharana).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He created 8 new Ragas viz. Bisweswari, Palas-Sarang, Anuranjani, Ashiqui Lalit, Swanandeswari, Kalyani Bilawal, Shivamanjari and Prabhati Manjari (in memory of his wife Manju).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has authored three books on Indian Music namely \u2018Sitar and It’s Techniques\u2019, \u2018Music of India\u2019 and \u2018On Indian Music\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was a disciple of Mushtaq Ali Khan. In 2010 he started the UMAK (Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan) Center for culture in memory of his \u2018\u2019guru\u2019\u2019 Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was conferred the Padma bhushan and Padma Shri awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Renowned sitar player Debu Chaudhuri passed away. Pandit Devabrata (Debu) Chaudhuri (1935 \u2013 2021) was an Indian sitarist and teacher. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 He is considered one of the greatest sitar player of the era with Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee. He is regarded as one of the leading proponents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":41972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1407],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-41971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41973,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41971\/revisions\/41973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41971"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=41971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}