Women's Feature Service, June 27th, 2005
New Delhi, (WFS) - Aliya Rasheed , dhrupad singer and performer, has given music lovers a lot to mull over. Despite there being a rich tradition of music in her home country, Pakistan, Rasheed chose to cross the border and learn dhrupad - the most demanding of Indian classical vocal music forms - in India rather than her native Pakistan.
Not only that, she followed the traditional guru-shishya parampara (tradition) which requires the disciple to take up residence in the home of the guru or teacher. This involved a four-year stay at a vegetarian gurukul in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) at a time whe...
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