Acknowledgement And Credits

I) Individuals and Institutions—
Honestly, I am at a total loss of words when I have to acknowledge the great cooperation given by the following individuals whom I met while collecting information or sound samples for this web site. Seriously, I felt as if they were waiting for me to approach them and the moment I explained the theme of the web site to them, they got convinced and spent their valuable time and gave the information/ audio files requested by me. I really feel indebted to them, as this project, would not have reached the depth it has achieved, without their whole hearted and selfless contribution.

i) Senior Musicologists, writers and critics - Late Dr. Ashok Da. Ranade and Late Shri Mohan Nadkarni gave invaluable suggestions which gave a strong base to the project, for which I am grateful to them. I receive continued guidance from Pandit Yashwant Mahale on theoretical and practical aspects for which I am indebted to him.

ii) Books-
Mr. A V Ashtaputre-He made available nearly 75 books from personal library of his Late father, Dr. V S Ashtaputre, ; Mr. Pramod Marathe-Principal, Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Pune; Staff at S N D T Library, Pune, ITC Sangit Research Academy, Kolkata, Late Dr. Vivek Khadilkar, U S A.

iii) Audio files-
Mr. Mohan G Deshpande; Mr. Kishore Merchant, Musician’s Guild, Mumbai; Late Dr. S V Gokhale; Late Pandit Shivdas Chandavarkar; Mr. Duraphe, Mrs. Prema Bhandarkar, Mr. Shashi Kelkar, Mr. U N Gunjal, Mr. P B Kalawade, Mr. S Subramanian; Mr. Suhas Date; Mr. V D Nandanvadkar, Mr. Anuran Chaudhari, Mr. Shivaprasad Nayak, Bengaluru; Mr. Prafull Anubhai, Dr. Kashyap Dave & others at Saptak Org, Ahemdabad; Team at ITC Sangit Research Academy, Kolkata; Mr. Rajesh Thakurdwarkar, Burhanpur; Mr. Shrikant Digrajkar & Mr. Dnyanesh Chirmule, Kolhapur; Mr. Madhukaka Joshi, Pune, Mr. Mohan Ranade, U.S.A.

iv) Artists/ their relatives who gave permission to include their audio files-
Mr. Ajay K Ginde, who made available and gave permission to include rare Ragas presented by his Late father, Pt. K G Ginde; and Late Acharya S N Ratanjankar; Adv. Swapnil Navrang (son of Late Master Navrang Nagpurkar); Mr. Santosh Nadkarni ( son of Late Pt. Ramesh Nadkarni); Mr. Dilip Amberkar (son of Late Pt. Pandurang Amberkar); Mr. Vikas Janorikar (son of Late Pt. T D Janorikar); Mr. Shrikant Waikar-Jangam (son of Late Pt. Jangambuwa); Miss Kiran & Miss Prasoon Shukla (daughters of Late Pt. Shivkumar Shukla);

Late Pt. Arvind Gajendragadkar, Late Mr. Govindrao Modak, Mumbai; Mrs. Rajashree Mahajani; Late Dr. Suhasini Koratkar, Smt. Shubha Joshi, Dr. Milind Malshe, Mumbai; Dr. Alka Deo-Marulkar; Nasik; Mr. Shailesh Mavinkurve, Mumbai; Mr. Mukunda Joshi, Mumbai; Late Mrs. Sangeeta Pandharpurkar; Late Mrs. Vasanti Sathe; Pune; Mr. Sudhir Deodhar, Dombivli; Pandit Vijay Bakshi, Dr. Chaitanya Kunte, Dr. Rewa Natu ; Pune; Pandit Kedar Bodas.

v)Development team-  Special thanks are also due to the Development Team- Mrs. Sangeeta Sakrikar, Mrs. Usha Deo, Mrs. Vidya Pathrikar & their colleagues who cheerfully accepted and implemented my unending suggestions.