Kalyan Kumar Mukherjea is an authority on Indian classical music, particular the Senia Shahjahanpur Gharana (school) of Sarod. WikipediaWikiProject Indian cities for details --> Shahjahanpur is a district and a Municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar In Hindustani music, a gharānā is a system of social organization linking musicians or dancers by lineage and/or apprenticeship and by adherence to a particular The sarod is a stringed musical instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. He is also a noted mathematician.
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Early life
Mukherjea was born in Calcutta in 1943. His father, A K Mukherjea, was a successful barrister who rose to become a judge of the Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court of India is the highest court of the land as established by Part V Chapter IV of the Constitution of India. [1] Justice Mukherjea was also a scholar of Indian philosophy, and had made significant contributions to Navya-Nyāya literature. The Navya-Nyāya or Neo-Logical darśana (view system or school of Indian Philosophy was founded in the 13th century CE [2] Kalyan thus grew up in a milieu that placed considerable significance on erudition and culture.
Justice Mukherjea's close friends included eminent musicians like the sarod maestro Radhika Mohan Maitra. Radhika Mohan Maitra (1917-1981 was an extremely influential figure in 20th century Sarod music. Young Kalyan began training under him in 1956. He also studied with the eminent sitarist, vocalist and composer, Prof D T Joshi.
Kalyan Mukherjea's musical education continued uninterrupted throughout his performing career, but there were periods during which he was not under the direct tutelage of a master (1962-1965 and 1967-1976). These years spent in relative isolation from the Indian music scene, Mukherjea believes, contributed as much to his growth as a musician as did his formal training. Mukherjea has had a unique experience, doubling as a mathematician and an uncompromising classicist on the sarod. A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. The sarod is a stringed musical instrument used mainly in Indian classical music.
As a Mathematician
Kalyan took his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University, followed by a doctorate in mathematics from Cornell. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the In 1968, he joined the mathematics faculty of UCLA. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United He remained at UCLA until 1976, when he returned to India to take up a professorship at the Indian Statistical Institutes in Delhi and Calcutta. Indian Statistical Institute (ISI engages in the research teaching and application of Statistics to the Natural sciences and Social sciences.
His research interests primarily concern topology. He has to his credit authoritative publications in Fredholm manifolds[3] and coincidence theory. In Mathematics, a coincidence point (or simply coincidence) of two mappings is a point in their domain having the same image point under both [4] In collaboration with his erstwhile research student Rajendra Bhatia, he has also contributed to matrix analysis. [5] According to the American Mathematical Society collaboration distance calculator, his Erdös number is 4. The American Mathematical Society (AMS is an association of professional Mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship which The Erdős number (ɛrdøːʃ honoring the late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, is a way of describing the "collaborative distance" between a person
Notably, his work has spawned a significant body of further research, by his erstwhile students as well as colleagues and contemporaries. [6] [7] He has also mentored several significant contributors to the field,[8] including Rajendra Bhatia, Basudeb Datta, Siddhartha Gadgil, Amritangshu Prasad, Mahan Mitra, and Kingshook Biswas.
As a Musician
Prof Mukherjea's contribution to music is considerable if unconventional. He has been recognised as a pedagogue, theorist and performer of merit. But this recognition has been sporadic in coming, although his own involvement with music remained fairly consistent across different stages of his life.
While at UCLA, Kalyan served as an instructor of Hindustani instrumental music in the newly-formed ethnomusicology department, and collaborated closely with Nazir Jairazbhoy in the early days of the program. This article is about the concept For the society and academic journal see Society for Ethnomusicology. Nazir Jairazbhoy was a Professor of Folk and classical music of South Asia at University of California at Los Angeles, where he was the founding chair of the Department of His students include Dr. Peter Manuel, Professor of Music at Hunter College, CUNY, who has acknowledged his debt to Prof Mukherjea in several publications. Hunter College High School|Hunter College Elementary School Hunter College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY Acronym ˈkjuːni is the public University system of New York City. [9] [10]
Professor Mukherjea has never had what one would consider a typical performative career. His 25-year span as a performing artist saw him play about fifty concerts in all. It was entirely by chance that he encountered Lyle Wachovsky of India Archive Music, New York, who gave his music a global audience by publishing a full-length CD of Ragas Shuddha Kalyan and Shukla Bilawal. Most of Kalyan's concerts have been recorded, and if one manages to get past the often poor recording quality, he has much to offer to the connoisseur of Indian raga music. Additionally, from 1983 to 1990, Kalyan was a regular broadcaster on All India Radio, Delhi.
Kalyan's music is difficult to categorise under usual taxonomic classifications. While rooted in tradition, it does not rigidly adhere to convention. As befits a thinking man, his approach values logic and aesthetic sensitivity above other considerations. A good example of this is his approach to interpreting the controversial Raga Shuddha Kalyan, which finds mention in an article by Deepak Raja on the issue. [11]
Paralytic Stroke and Other Problems
In May 1995, whatever Prof. Mukherjea had of a musical career came to a sudden end, as he suffered a paralytic stroke, and lost mobility of the left side of his body. Research in topology continued for a number of years, but waned eventually as Kalyan's eyesight, already a matter of concern at the time of his stroke, began to deteriorate very rapidly. Topology ( Greek topos, "place" and logos, "study" is the branch of Mathematics that studies the properties of He is now completely blind.
Prof Mukherjea Today
Kalyan Mukherjea leads an active life for a person of his physical limitations. He is deeply involved in the community of visually impaired computer users, and has assisted several such individuals in setting up the "Audio Desktop" of Emacspeak. Emacspeak is a free Screen reader for Emacs which is written in C, Emacs Lisp and Tcl and developed principally by Additionally, he continues to play an inspirational role in the lives of a number of young mathematicians.
On the musical front, other than providing occasional guidance to other disciples of Radhika Mohan Maitra's gharana (e. g. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Prattyush Banerjee, Jon Barlow etc), he has a number of his own pupils, including Anirvan DuttaGupta and Arnab Chakrabarty. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay is a Hindustani classical Sitar player He is Ustad Allauddin Khan Professor and Head at the Department of Instrumental Music of Rabindra Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980 is a Hindustani classical musician and Sarod player
Publications
Journal Articles: Mathematics
Bhatia, Rajendra & Mukherjea, Kalyan K (1994), “Variation of the Unitary Part of a Matrix”, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 15 (3): 1007-14, <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=181246.181269>
Mukherjea, Kalyan K (1970), “The Homotopy Type of Fredholm Manifolds”, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 149 (2): 653-663, <http://www.jstor.org/pss/1995419>
Mukherjea, Kalyan K (1972), “New Methods in Coincidence Theory”, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 34 (2): 615-20, <http://www.jstor.org/pss/2038417>
Mukherjea, Kalyan K & Sankaran, Parameswaran (1996), “Invariant points of maps between Grassmannians”, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 124 (2): 649-53, <https://www.ams.org/proc/1996-124-02/S0002-9939-96-03152-8/S0002-9939-96-03152-8.pdf>
Books: Mathematics
1. Mukherjea, Kalyan:Differential Calculus In Normed Linear Spaces, American Mathematical Society, 2003 (ISBN: 8185931437, Hardcover)
Writings: Music
Radhika Mohan Maitra - His Life and Times
Discography: Music
Raga Shuddha Kalyan, India Archive Music, 2003
References
- ^ List of Judges of the Supreme Court of India. Ministry of Law, Government of India. Retrieved on 2008-05-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
- ^ Mukherjea, Kalyan K (1970), “The Homotopy Type of Fredholm Manifolds”, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 149 (2): 653-663, <http://www.jstor.org/pss/1995419>
- ^ Mukherjea, Kalyan K (1972), “New Methods in Coincidence Theory”, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 34 (2): 615-20, <http://www.jstor.org/pss/2038417>
- ^ Bhatia, Rajendra & Mukherjea, Kalyan K (1994), “Variation of the Unitary Part of a Matrix”, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 15 (3): 1007-14, <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=181246.181269>
- ^ Harris, Gary & Martin, Clyde (1988), “Large Roots Yield Large Coefficients: An Addendum to `The Roots of a Polynomial Vary Continuously as a Function of the Coefficients'”, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 102 (4): 993-94, <http://www.jstor.org/pss/2047347>
- ^ Sankaran, Parameswaran (2003), “A Coincidence Theorem for Holomorphic Maps to G/P”, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin 46 (2): 291-98, <http://journals.cms.math.ca/cgi-bin/vault/view/sankaran8169>
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project: Kalyan Kumar Mukherjea. American Mathematical Society. Retrieved on 2008-05-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
- ^ [|Manuel, Peter] (1989), Ṭhumrī in Historical and Stylistic Perspectives, Varanasi: Motilal Banarsidass, pp. vii, 176, ISBN 8120806735
- ^ [|Manuel, Peter] (1993), Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. xviii, ISBN 0226504018
- ^ Raja, Deepak. Raga Shuddha Kalyan: How and why it is changing. Retrieved on 2008-05-24. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned
External links
An Introduction by Abhik Majumdar
Deepak Raja:Raga Shuddha Kalyan: How and why it is changing
An All India Radio Recording (1984)
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