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          An Archival photo of Eminent Sitarist Vidushi Mita Nag taking taleem from her father and guru Legendary Sitar Maestro Pandit Manilal Nag.

          Pandit Manilal Nag (born 16 August ) is an Indian classical sitar player and an exponent of the Bishnupur gharana of Bengal.!

          photo: John Wilton

          Interview with Manilal Nag

          West Hurley, New York · November 1994
          By Ira Landgarten.

          Copyright 1994 Ira Landgarten

          Ira Landgarten:           First of all, about your background, where and when were you born?

          Manilal Nag: I was born in Bankura town, of the Bankura district of West Bengal in the year 1939, on 16th August.

          Then I came to Uttarpara with my father.

          He studied under Legendary Sitar Maestro Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar.

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          6. Uttarpara is near to Calcutta, in the Hooghly district. Uttarpara was a very cultural town-once upon a time many, many big men visited Uttarpara like Madhosudan Dutta, Ram Mohan Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. B.C. Roy. At that time, my father, the late Sri Gokul Nag, lived in the jamindar bari, that means the house of the jamindar [landlord], as a music teacher.

          The children of the jamindar learned some music-sitar, vocal-from my father.

          My father could play all kinds of instruments, many, many instruments like beena, surbahar, esraj, sitar, sarod, tabla, tabla taranga, harmonium, jaltaranga, n