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Rais Khan

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Ustad Rais Khan (رئیس خان‎; 25 November 19396 May 2017) was a Pakistani sitarist. [1]

58 relations: Alap, Ali Akbar Khan, Anwar Maqsood, Asha Bhosle, Associated Press of Pakistan, BBC, Bismillah Khan, Cezanne Khan, Coke Studio Pakistan (season 7), Dawn (newspaper), Dewas, Dhrupad, Firstpost, Gamak (music), Geo News, Government of Pakistan, Hindustani classical music, Imdadkhani gharana, India Gate, Indo-Asian News Service, Indore, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Karachi, Khyal, Lata Mangeshkar, List of governors of Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, Meend, Mohammed Rafi, Mumbai, Nehru Centre, Nisar Bazmi, Pakistan, Pakistan Observer, Pakistan Television Corporation, Pakistanis, Pervez Musharraf, Presidencies and provinces of British India, President of Pakistan, Pride of Performance, Qateel Shifai, Rajab Ali Khan, Rudra veena, Sabri Brothers, Samaa TV, Shehnai, Sitar, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Svara, Tabla, ..., Tari Khan, The Express Tribune, The Friday Times, The Hindu, The News International, Thumri, Ustad, Vilayat Khan. Expand index (8 more) »

Alap

The alap is the opening section of a typical North Indian classical performance.

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Ali Akbar Khan

Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 192218 June 2009) was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod.

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Anwar Maqsood

Anwar Maqsood Hameedi (Urdu) commonly known as Anwar Maqsood (b. 1932) is a Pakistani scriptwriter, television host, satirist, humorist, and infrequent actor.

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Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle (born 8 September 1933), is an Indian singer.

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Associated Press of Pakistan

Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) is a government-operated national news agency of Pakistan.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bismillah Khan

Ustad Bismillah Khan (21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006) (born as Qamaruddin Khan), often referred to by the honorific title Ustad, was an Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai, a subcontinental wind instrument of the oboe class.

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Cezanne Khan

Cézanne Khan is an Indian television actor.

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Coke Studio Pakistan (season 7)

The seventh season of the Pakistani music television series Coke Studio premiered on 21 September 2014.

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Dawn (newspaper)

DAWN is Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper.

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Dewas

Dewas is a city on the Malwa plateau in the west-central part of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Dhrupad

Dhrupad is a genre in Hindustani classical music.

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Firstpost

Firstpost is an Indian news and media website.

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Gamak (music)

Gamaka, also known as gamak, refers to ornamentation that is used in the performance of North and South Indian classical music.

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Geo News

Geo News is a private Pakistani TV news channel, owned and operated by Independent Media Corporation, the parent company which also owns the Jang Group of Newspapers.

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Government of Pakistan

The Government of Pakistan (حکومتِ پاکستان) is a federal government established by the Constitution of Pakistan as a constituted governing authority of the four provinces of a proclaimed and established parliamentary democratic republic, constitutionally called the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

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Hindustani classical music

Hindustani classical music is the traditional music of northern areas of the Indian subcontinent, including the modern states of India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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Imdadkhani gharana

The Imdadkhani gharana is a North Indian school of sitar and surbahar music.

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India Gate

The India Gate (originally called the All India War Memorial) is a war memorial located astride the Rajpath, on the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi, India, formerly called Kingsway.

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Indo-Asian News Service

Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private Indian news agency.

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Indore

Indore is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., named in 1964 as a memorial to President John F. Kennedy.

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Karachi

Karachi (کراچی; ALA-LC:,; ڪراچي) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.

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Khyal

Khyal or Khayal is the modern genre of classical singing in North India.

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Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar (born 28 September 1929) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer.

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List of governors of Bombay

Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands separated by shallow sea.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.

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Meend

In Hindustani music, meend (Hindi: मीण्ड़ ْ, میند) refers to a glide from one note to another.

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Mohammed Rafi

Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 - 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer and one of the most popular and successful singers of the Hindi film industry.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Nehru Centre

Nehru Centre is a memorial to Jawaharlal Nehru in Mumbai.

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Nisar Bazmi

Nisar Bazmi (نِثار بزمی), (1 December 1924 – 22 March 2007) was a composer and music director of Indian and Pakistan film industry.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Observer

The Pakistan Observer is an English-language daily newspaper published in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore.

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Pakistan Television Corporation

Pakistan Television Corporation (پاكِستان ٹیلی وژن نیٹ ورک; reporting name: PTV) is a public and commercial broadcasting television network, as well as a mass-media state-owned megacorporation, with headquarters at Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Pakistanis

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Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf (پرویز مشرف; born 11 August 1943) is a Pakistani politician and a retired four-star army general who was the tenth President of Pakistan from 2001 until tendering resignation, to avoid impeachment, in 2008.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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President of Pakistan

The President of Pakistan (صدر مملکت پاکستان —), is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and a figurehead who represents the "unity of the Republic." in Chapter 1: The President, Part III: The Federation of Pakistan in the Constitution of Pakistan.

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Pride of Performance

The President's Award for Pride of Performance (تمغۂ حسنِ کارکردگی) is one of the awards conferred by the Government of Pakistan on Pakistani civilians in recognition of distinguished meritorious work in the fields of literature, arts, sports, medicine, and science.

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Qateel Shifai

Muhammad Aurangzeb or Qateel Shifai (قتِیل شِفائ), (24 December 1919 – 11 July 2001) was a Pakistani Urdu language poet.

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Rajab Ali Khan

Ustad Rajab Ali Khan (September 3, 1874 at Narsinhgarh, Madhya Pradesh – January 8, 1959 at Dewas, Madhya Pradesh) was an Indian classical vocalist.

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Rudra veena

The rudra veena (also spelled rudra vina, रुद्रवीणा, রুদ্রবীণা), and also called bīn (Hindi: बीन in North India), is a large plucked string instrument used in Hindustani classical music, one of the major types of veena played in Indian classical music.

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Sabri Brothers

The Sabri Brothers (Punjabi, صابری برادران) is a music band from Pakistan performing Sufi qawwali music, closely connected to the Chishti Order.

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Samaa TV

SAMAA TV (سماء) is a Pakistani news and entertainment television network.

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Shehnai

The shehnai, shenoy, sanai, shahnai, shenai, shanai or mangal vadya or sahanai (शहनाई, শানাই, सनई, ଶାହାନାଇ, ಸನಾದಿ) is a musical instrument similar to the oboe, common in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

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Sitar

The sitar (or; सितार, Punjabi: ਸਿਤਾਰ) is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music.

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Sitara-i-Imtiaz

The Sitara-i-Imtiaz (ستارۂ امتياز), also spelled as Sitara-e-Imtiaz (English: Star of Excellence), is the third highest honour and civilian award in the State of Pakistan.

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Svara

Swara (Hindi स्वर), also spelled swara, is a Sanskrit word that connotes a note in the successive steps of the octave.

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Tabla

The tabla is a membranophone percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent, consisting of a pair of drums, used in traditional, classical, popular and folk music.

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Tari Khan

Abdul Sattar "Tari" Khan (born 1953) is a Pakistani tabla player and vocalist.

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The Express Tribune

The Express Tribune is a major daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan.

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The Friday Times

The Friday Times (TFT) is a Pakistani English-language independent newsweekly, based in Lahore, Pakistan.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.

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The News International

The News International, published in broadsheet size, is the largest English language newspaper in Pakistan.

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Thumri

Thumrī is a common genre of semi-classical Indian music.

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Ustad

Ustād (abbreviated as Ust., Ut. or Ud.; from Persian استاد) is an honorific title for a man used in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Vilayat Khan

Ustad Vilayat Khan (28 August 1928 – 13 March 2004) was an Indian classical sitar player.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rais_Khan

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