Omkarnath thakur biography for kids
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Pandit Omkarnath Thakur
by Susheela Misra
(Rec.: a feature on Omkarnath Thakur - musician extraordinaire and a model for every self-respecting Bharatiya; Pilfered from: "Great Masters of Hindustani Music" by Smt. Susheela Misra, Hem Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1981. - Originally posted on RMIC by Rajan Parrikar as part of Great Masters Series.)
After listening to Pandit Omkarnath Thakur's music once, Mahatma Gandhi is said to have remarked : "Pandit Omkarnathji can achieve through a single song of his, what I cannot achieve through several speeches."
Such was the impact of Omkarnath Thakur's personality and his music on listeners. Besides being a successful musician, he was also endowed with an impressive personality who combined in himself many wonderful qualities of head and heart. The story of his early boyhood years is really a moving one, filled as it was, with struggles, privations, and poverty. But instead of being crushed under all this suffering, the boy's strong character, his inborn talents, and his fine qualities emerged with a rare brilliance out of the purifying fires of suffering. Omkarnathji's life-story proves how one who is destined to achieve greatness in life, will emerge triumphant, however adverse the circumstances m
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Pandit Omkarnath Thakur
Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, an icon of north Indian Classical music, a reputed vocalist who could impress class and mass with his performance, a researcher in Indian musicology, a knowledgable Guru, a capable administrator, an impressive orator having knowledge of many Indian languages and an educationalist was born on 24th june 1897 in small village of Gujarat state of India
His Childhood passed in poverty as father Mr.Gaurishankar left his job of army and became a saint, leaving all responsibility of children and family on wife Zaverba. She worked very hard for livelihood and son omkar, as a child helped mother in earning bread and also helped his father for daily needs. Though intelligent and talented singer he could not complete his schooling due to family responsibility. His formal education was only up to 5th standard, but he was self educated man and later due to his scholarly research in music he was awarded D.Lit. by two prestigious universities of India. He was the first musician to receive ‘padmashri’ award by Government of India.
His music Guru was Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, a very welknown devoted Guru and a reformer of Indian music. After five six years of intense training in music omkarnathji developed his own style of s
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Omkarnath Thakur
by Mohan Nadkarni
First Publicized in: Picture Times cosy up India, Bombay Edition, bear out December 27, 1992
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