“As a toddler my father, Pandit Shankar Ghosh, would place me in the centre of a circle or you may call a chakravyuh formed by tablas. Having accompanied Pandit Ravi Shankar for 11 years, he reached a point when he was eager to express his own personality. For want of better name we called it fusion but I prefer referring to as expression of self.”Brushing aside criticism of foregoing traditional purity of classical music in fusion, Bickram says that is not true. “In fusion I bring in elements of classical music which is synchronised and collaborated with other genres. “Listening to this category of performing art motivates and enables many youngsters to gravitate to the classical form — the fountain head.

Source: The Hindu September 11, 2016 13:07 UTC