He trained under Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma. He played Dhankoni Kalyan, a raga created by his father. As the name suggests (Dha-na ie dhaivat nahin and Ko-ni ie komal nishad) there was no dhaivat ...

Ravi Shankar, Shivji (Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma) myself, or be they younger artistes, students, people handling lights, sound at the concerts or those serving chai — he treated everyone with the ...