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The beauty in diversity
Updated On: 13 September, 2021 07:47 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
At an upcoming event, Hidayat Husain Khan will chronicle learnings from his decades-long journey of creating fusions, and cross-disciplinary music
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Hidayat Husain Khan
What if I told you that you were ugly? Without having met you, or known you, I look at your picture and tell you that you’re ugly,” questions Hidayat Husain Khan, attempting to make a case for himself by mimicking the reckless attitude of critics and trolls, who have only been encouraged by the freedom afforded by social media. Although he is expected to brave opinions about his craft from individuals who may have no knowledge about it, Khan admits that from a young age, he didn’t win favour for his choices.
“My dad was a purist, in an abstract sense,” he says of his legendary father, Ustad Vilayat Khan. “He encouraged [me] to listen to all kinds of music, but believed one must take those influences and put them into their own music, instead of diluting [a genre] by fusing the two. He was not pro-fusion, but encouraged us to be thinkers.”
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