Nearly 47 years-ago (April 1961) Gururaja Joshi, the father ofBhimsen Joshi, wrote a longish biographical essay in Kannada for an anthologytitled Nadedu Banda Dari, published by Manohara Grantamala in Dharwad.Bhimsen Joshi (born 1922 in Ron of Karnataka on the Rathasapthami day) was justabout 40-years-old when this essay was written, but had already made a big namefor himself in the Hindustani classical music circuit. Excerpts