Just two weeks ago, while I was talking about your influence on my life — showing the audience in the Indian Museum in Kolkata the Zakir Hussain maquette ... the life of an artist, the unending ...
Zakir Hussain was instrumental in shaping the way people perceived and accepted the tabla in the last six decades ...
Late table maestro Zakir Hussain had once spoken about his father ... He said, ‘I am the worshipper of Goddess Saraswati and Lord Ganesh’. This was a devout Muslim talking.