Best Paper Award to Pragya

I am indeed thrilled that on September 23, 2023, Naad Nartan felicitated Dr. Pragya Pyasi with the Best Paper award for their 2022 National Seminar organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

Pragya is the first among my disciples to get felicitated for excellence in
academic writing!

Her paper titled ‘Do the YouTube Views Count Reflects the Seniority and Acceptance of Indian Classical Musicians within Fraternity or the Vice-Versa?’ was published in UGC CARE Listed Naad-Nartan Journal of Dance & Music [ISSN:2349-4654], Vol-10, Issue-1, June 2022, DOI: https://zenodo.org/record/7056304

Pragya is the first among my disciples to get felicitated for excellence in
academic writing!

Here is an insertion from a Facebook post of September 26, 2023.

Dr. Pintu Saha [pen name Pramit], Head of the Department of Music at Assam Central University, commented below…

Pandit Radhika Mohan Maitra’s pedagogy

It was the 1st of February 2021. I was leisurely thinking of my half-pant days, my school, my tiny sitar, Ustadjee. Suddenly my phone rang. It was Ms. Shailaja Khanna from New Delhi. Shailaja is a regular columnist of Music for several renowned Indian dailies. She wanted me to talk about the pedagogy of my Ustadjee and limit it to around 3 minutes. She told that she was planning to present a program on the 105th Birthday of Pandit Radhika Mohan Maitra on the TV channel Insync.

Shailaja Khanna
Shailaja Khanna

This sudden request was a tough test for me. To talk about Ustadjee’s teaching style and wrap up within 3 to 4 minutes was not easy as licking one’s favorite ice cream. I told Shailajajee to give me a little time. I wanted to identify some quick points and generate some deliverable concept on which the talk can stand. I said yes after two days. Here is the 3 min. 40 secs. video. 

Professor (Pt.) Sanjoy Bandopadhyay talking on his Guru Pandit Radhika Mohan Maitra

I could not adequately explain some points in the video. One was about prefixing such a phenomenal musician’s name with ‘Shri.’ Yes, you got it right, Ustadjee did not like his name to get prefixed by Pandit or the likes. He used to tell that he was Shri Radhika Mohan Maitra.