Rasoolan Bai was a renowned Hindustani Classical musician. She was known for the romantic Purab Ang of “Thumri Sangeet” and belonged to Benaras Gharana.  In the gruesome Hindu-Muslim Gujarat riots in 1969, her house was burnt down, and she was forced to return to Uttar Pradesh. She started a life in Allahabad, depending only on her small stall near the AIR building until she died an unnoticed death in 1974.  

Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar established several branches of a music school by the name of “Gandharv Vidyalay” Spreading knowledge about music had become the sole mission of his life. 

This is the story of a young boy who ran away from home at the age of ten, and joined a Jatra (vernacular theatre) group. Thereafter, he went to Calcutta and became a disciple of Nulu Gopalji till he passed away. He then became a disciple of Amritlal Dutt, with a burning desire to become an instrumentalist, and learned to play many indigenous and foreign musical instruments like sitar, flute, piccolo, mandolin, banjo, etc. Subsequently, he became a disciple of Ustad Wazir Khan who helped him acquire all the nuances of the sarod. This young man who then became the court musician for the Maharaja of Maihar is none other than Ustad Allauddin Khan.