Eve of Shri Ganesha puja, Cabella Ligure (Italy), September 9th, 1995 Nishat Khan plays on sitar Marva and Yaman ragas. Nishat Khan: Shri Mataji, it’s always a special honour to be here, to play for you and we are very grateful to be invited and in a way, I invited myself this time, to come and to play for you. Because I know that Shri Ganesha Puja is a very important puja and I want to play for you some compositions from guru vandana [respect for elders?], and so I will play, because of this time, we still have light of the evening, I will play raga Marva [Then Yaman]. [Concert] [Starts at 1:08:26] Nishat Khan: I’ve played many concerts but I have never played Marwa. I have never played Marwa for Shri Mataji, because I wanted to play for very long time, and when I arrived this evening, somebody told me that Shri Mataji has asked to play now, at 6:30. I said in this light? And I thought Shri Mataji knows So, I’m really happy that I got to play this beautiful spiritual raga for you, Madam.Shri Mataji: I must say, apologize also, that Nishat Khan had told me that he would like to play on a Ganesha Puja. I had agreed also. But as you know the Swiss are veryparticular about time. They make all the watches.[Laughter]So, also we thought as there is very short time, I felt that he may not be happy to play for a short time Read More …