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March 2023-2024
Dear music lovers,
Wish you the best of health, happiness and peace.
I feel blessed to sing & compose in my fiftieth year of music besides being with my dear parent.
My prayers for ust.Rashid khan one of the all-time favourite vocalists of my generation.
Often suggested by my wellwishers and students in general to write something
about my training in the Hindustani vocal traditions, I share a few memoirs of my training
during my teens and twenties in India and abroad.
My Memoirs in Music
January - December 2022
Remembering legendary musician Ali Akbar khan :
Dear Friends,
This year is the 100th birth-anniversary of my revered mentor-musician the legendary sarode maestro
Ali Akbar khan. As a homage to Baba my father-figure, I present his raga ManjhKhamaj on my webpage of creations.
In memory of my beloved father-my lifetime's first inspiration, I name this webpage S U B O D H
meaning auspicious message.
I feel very fortunate to have treasured the recent years to take care and be with my dear aged parents,
besides singing-composing music. My heartfelt prayers are with my favourite Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar.
Wish you the best of health, happiness and peace in the new year.
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with my father / London-UK
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Dear Friends, March 2020-2021
wish you the best of health, happiness and peace in the new year.
The year of 2020 with all the adversities worldover, rests for me in memory of my beloved father Dr. Subodh Jhaveri,
my lifetime's first inspiration and backbone forever since my childhood. Noble, spiritual and gifted, an ENTsurgeon trained
in India and at the Royal School of Surgeons-London UK, he also loved cosmology, the Upanishads, yoga, the arts
and music. For brief years my mother worked at the India House-London and in India she taught as a
professor of literature for many years. My father's demise in India earlier in 2020 before the spread of covid19 was followed by the demise of
my respected Guruji, the world renowned vocalist Pandit Jasraj revered for his soulful music. I am ever grateful for the gifts of God.
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(( LISTEN to
(( PremGeet
(in memory
of my father)
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My beloved parents are enlightened, arts loving & supported wholeheartedly.
My father learnt bansuri-the Indian classical flute when me & my beloved sister-outstanding in fine arts
& later a renowned doctor, we were children sharing books & arts with parents.
Premgeet also takes me to early-memories of my beloved grandma & arts loving uncle alike parents who
encouraged me, my cousin brother loved books & fasting also visited my father's flute session.
My beloved little cousin sister was an elegant kathak dancer sharing the arts since childhood & was my first
vocal accompanist playing the taanpura in concerts, recordings & for months in the film BhagavadGita.
PremGeet (LoveSong) is a favourite lyric composed & sung from my early years :
" Pavana prem no vaayo / The breeze of love flew from far away, from the other world. "
Lyric by Dr. Subodh Jhaveri
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A book by my father
Dr. Subodh Jhaveri
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An excerpt from my father's article about the universe
that he wrote during his last days at the age of 90 :
" The Theory of BigBang about the origin of the universe is the greatest achievement of the 21st century's science.
It reflects immense power of the human intelligence that has revolutionised our thinking about the universe prevalent since
hundreds of centuries. Sages of an ancient school were known to present new ideas hence its spread was increasing.
Their aim was to discover the essential nature of things which they called physis. "
© 2021 Shweta Jhaveri
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