Raga'n Josh: Stories from a Musical LifeSheila Dhar`S Autobiographical Stories, Essays And Memoirs Are Classics Of Modern Indian Prose Many Out Of Print For Some Time. The Present Book Provides, For The First Time Within The Covers Of A Single Volume, Her Collected Shorter Writings, Including All Her Memorable Stories And Essays. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 3 |
Introduction | 4 |
HOME | 5 |
Number Seven Civil Lines | 6 |
Persian Couplets and One Green Chilli | 19 |
Baua | 24 |
If Music Be the Love of Food | 38 |
Playing for the Flowers | 49 |
THE COOKING OF MUSIC AND OTHER ESSAYS Publishers Note | 212 |
Sound and Hindustani Music | 213 |
An Inward Journey | 217 |
Reflections on the Kirana Legacy | 224 |
The Cooking of Music | 238 |
The NonWesternness of Hindustani Music | 244 |
Sunlight in the Raga | 252 |
Begum Akhtar | 260 |
An Odyssey | 58 |
Begum Akhtar to the Rescue | 87 |
A Bird of Paradise | 113 |
The Muse and the Truck Drivers | 134 |
Mrs Henderson from Ohio | 152 |
The Cent per Cent Gandhian | 167 |
Cat Among the Bureaucrats | 186 |
Mrs G and the Queen of Tonga | 196 |
Lady Linlithgow and the Taming of Raga Adana | 268 |
A Taste of British Guiana | 274 |
The ManySplendoured Harmonium | 281 |
The New Face of Listening | 288 |
AFTERWORD | 303 |
Two Obituaries of Sheila Dhar | 305 |
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