Thanks Zakirji!

The initial concerts I attended mainly featured Ustad Zakir Hussain and Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma teaming together. The musical chemistry between them is to be heard to be believed! Zakirji’s care coupled with his divine music drew me to these concerts each time. In a couple of years, I had landed a job in the Advertising world. Purchasing concert tickets wasn’t stressful anymore. In fact, I was now able to buy 3 and even take my parents along!

Sometimes if I missed buying my tickets and realized they were all gone, all it required was a call to Zakirji who would ask me to see him just prior to the show at the venue….and I'd follow him into the auditorium!

Today, if am here writing all this with a deep sense of gratitude and am given the honor of sharing the stage with Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasia, the entire credit goes to Zakirji! But for his intervention in my life, I’d never have known the dynamism of Indian Classical Music, now the elixir of my life!