Press
In print, in ink
अख़बारों से
Reports, columns and essays from Hindi and English publications. We only state what each clipping shows. Where a newspaper’s name or a date is not visible, we say so.
- Clippings
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- With a printed date
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Lucknow edition, page 4
वाह! उस्ताद बिस्मिल्लाह खां: गलियां भी सुनाएंगी शहनाई
Wah, Ustad Bismillah Khan: now even the lanes will play the shehnai
Reports that Varanasi Municipal Corporation has approved a plan, of about ₹30 crore, to develop the homes of Banaras's Bharat Ratna and Padma awardees as museums, with Ustad Bismillah Khan's riyaz room at its heart. A sidebar quotes Savita Anand on nearly twenty years of shared effort with the family, the 2021 Doordarshan programme and the 2018 Google Doodle.
- The page header reads 'Vichar Darpan'. The newspaper's name is not visible in the clipping.
Varanasi report
उस्ताद बिस्मिल्लाह ख़ान के पैतृक आवास को संग्रहालय बनाने की तैयारी
Preparations to turn Ustad Bismillah Khan's ancestral home into a museum
Varanasi Mayor Ashok Kumar Tiwari and Municipal Commissioner Himanshu Nagpal meet Ustad Sahib's family on the museum, the approach lane and Balaji Ghat, where he did his riyaz. Savita Anand, described as secretary of the Ustad Bismillah Khan Charitable Trust, calls it a milestone for carrying Kashi's heritage to a new generation.
- Newspaper name and date are not visible in the clipping.
Column 'Virasat'
बिस्मिल्लाह और मैं: एक सफ़र, एक याद...
Bismillah and I: a journey, a memory
Savita Anand's personal account: meeting Ustad Sahib in Delhi in 2006, her first visit to Banaras in 2011, the call from Google's team in 2018, the 2021 Doordarshan programme, and why VirasatNama exists. Her byline describes her as founder of Virasat-e-Bismillah and VirasatNama.
- Newspaper name is not visible in the clipping.
- Year inferred from the text, which marks twenty years since Ustad Sahib passed away.
Punjab Kesari, Delhi
शहनाई का खत उस्ताद बिस्मिल्लाह खान के नाम
The shehnai's letter to Ustad Bismillah Khan
A letter written in the voice of the shehnai itself, addressed to the maestro who carried it from the steps of temples and the banks of the Ganga to the ramparts of the Red Fort.
- The letter speaks of eighteen years since his passing, which suggests 2024.
Subah Savere
उस्ताद नहीं होते तो शहनाई को आज कौन पूछता!
Without the Ustad, who would care for the shehnai today?
A birth anniversary essay on how Ustad Bismillah Khan raised the shehnai from temples and weddings to the classical concert stage, and on the simplicity of his life. Her byline notes her association with the Ustad Bismillah Khan Educational Society, Varanasi.
- Hindi daily published from Bhopal. Masthead and date from the e-paper.
- The e-paper link printed on the page (epaper.subahsavere.news/c/66948760) no longer opens.
Newspaper clipping
बनारस, बिस्मिल्लाह और शहनाई: एक अविस्मरणीय गाथा
Banaras, Bismillah and the shehnai: an unforgettable saga
A birthday tribute to Ustad Bismillah Khan and his place in the musical life of Banaras. Her byline reads founder, Virasat-e-Bismillah.
- Newspaper name and date are not visible. Low resolution scan.
Newspaper profile
सविता को सेवा का आनंद
For Savita, the joy of service
A profile of Savita Anand's writing and social work. It notes that she was close to Ustad Bismillah Khan and deeply influenced by his life, that she was entrusted with writing his biography, that she was a senior vice president of the Ustad Bismillah Khan Educational Society, and that she had received the Talented Indian Puraskar 2018.
- Newspaper name is not visible in the clipping.
- The profile refers to the Google Doodle of 21 March 2018 as recent.
- A page viewer label covered a corner of this scan and has been toned down. No article text was altered.
Magazine, page 63
When I close my eyes and begin to sing, there is only darkness... slowly, light comes
An earlier piece of music writing by Savita Anand about Wasif, a dhrupad singer of the Dagar family trained by his uncle Ustad N. Zahiruddin Dagar and his father Ustad N. Faiyazuddin Dagar, known together as the Dagar Brothers. The page opens with a quote from Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar. The whole page is shown as printed, including a note that vocal dhrupad can be learnt 'at his residence (Asian Games Village)' and at a gurukul in Palaspe, Panvel.
- Magazine title and date are not visible.