Bharat Gupt
Bharat Gupt
Surbahar
1 Renditions • 25 m
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PLAYS
Surbahar
GHARANA
Gwalior
GURUS
Pt. Uma Shankar Mishra
Acharya KC Bhrispati
Swami Kripalvananda
Dr. Bharat Gupt is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst and newspaper columnist. He trained in surbahar and sitar under Pt. Uma Shankar Mishra for eight years, and studied ancient Indian musicological texts and modern Indian music under Acharya KC Bhrispati and Swami Kripalvananda. He completed his schooling and college in Delhi, spent a year in the US during the counter-culture days, and later moved to Toronto to complete his master's degree. A former associate professor of English at the University of Delhi, he is currently a trustee and executive member of the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts.