 Alms to the beggar
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 |  Leper beggar, Malleshwaram
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 A temporary beggar,.
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 |  Mentally charged beggar
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 Street beggar playing flute
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 |  Leper Beggar praying god
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 Mentally charged beggar
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 |  Lepers near Yeshwanthpur church
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 Alms to the beggar
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 |  Namada dasayya with his long horns
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 beggar with flute
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 Dr. N. Rajam, Veteran exponent of Violin with her violinist father and violinist nees, with Kala Ramanath with Mohan D. Nadkarni
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 |  Raasa krida, attemting an appeasement with Radha, sketch of Painting of shubha rai
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 Unidentified
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 |  Ghatam,
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 Mushtaq Hussain Khan
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 Omkarnath thakur He was the Khalifa of Agra Gharana The only English educated Singer!; He also wrote his memoirs |  |
 |  Pakhawaz, percussion instrument
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 Shanta hemmadi, Born Dec. 1937. A Hindustani vocal artist, Disciple of Vinaya chandra maudgalya of gandharva maha vidyalaya, Delhi. She passed her Sageeta visharada, for some time she learned from D. V. Paluskar and Amarnath in Delhi. Broad cost form AIR Mumbai Pune Nagpur Delhi |  |
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 Late pandit Jitendra Abhisheki, He breathed new life to Bhakti Sangeet as well and considered as a trend setter. Though he lacked in having god given singer's voice, he more than made up in his art of presentation of various rare themes and popularized them. |  |
 |  A group of Ghana instruments
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 The Nagara (Nagari)
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 |  Bhimsen Joshi has been felicitated
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 Suman kalyanpur, 28-Jan 1937 She is disciple of Abdul rahman khan, and Master Navarang. Has sung in a number of Hindi and Marathi movies and besides Gujarati, Punjabi Urdu non filmy songs over 3000. has won Phalke award and no. of other international award |  |
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 Nawab of Oudh, Wajid Ali Shah ali shaha oudh, uttara pradesh, Ruler of oudh, a patrons of arts, thumri, kathak dance and drama. Composer of babul mora |  |
 |  Bhim sen Joshi, receiving award form M.V. Kamat, noted Journalist
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 M.V Kamat and Bhim sen joshi, Mises. Vatsala joshi
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 |  Manish dongre in a kathak Abhinaya pose
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 Begam Aktar Renowned, 1914-1974, Aktharzivai faizabadi, better known as Begam Aktar, from UP, outstanding Thumri, Dadri, and Gazal. Started singing at the age of 14. Died just after completing a movie performance in Ahmadabad. |  |
 |  Saraswati veena. One of the oldest string instruments of India |
 Mohan Nadkarni, Gangubai hanagal At savai gandharva concert, Kundugol. 1986 |  |
 |  M. V. Kamat, distinguished journalist
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 Sunanda nayyar, Mohini attum, in mohini attam pose
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 |  D. R. Parvatikar, showing the "Dattatreya Veena" to President Rajendra Prasad looking on his Ranganath Diwakar, minister of broadcasting. Picture is dated March 23, 1957 |
 Ustad, Alla rakha khan, Tabala maestro.
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 |  The Rudra veena
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 The Sitar
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 |  Ramachadra Hegde playing Rudra Veena or Been North Indian Version veena. The earliest string instruments mentioned in Vedic literature |
 Ramachadra Hegde At a concert Rudra Veena or Been A peculiar position while playing Vajrasana |  |
 |  Line drawing of a painting of Raasa krida of Radha krishna by Shubha rai
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 D. K. Dattar, Distinguished maestro violin Violin A western instruments is essential accompaniment in Carnatak classical music, but in Hindustani classical it is played independently |  |
 |  Girija devi, 1924 Girija devi is the only acclaimed artist banaras, tumri gayaki, equally professioned in Khyal, trained in many disciples in Tumri singing |
 Ratna Mala Venugopal Koushik, 1918-1946 Learnt classical music Khansaheb Mhammoo khan, Mohan Chikkarmane, Master Navarang, Nagpurkar. Use to sing Hindustani classical music, sung in AIR, and HMV records. |  |
 |  Bhajane veena, An elementary form of Veena
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 Rabab, A stringed instruments used in Hindustani classical music
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