The empress of Patiala Gayaki, Vidushi Meera Banerjee passed away on the night of June 27, 2012. Born in Meerut on 28th March 1930, Vidushi Meera Banerjee was initiated into music by her musicologist father, Shailendra Kumar Chatterjee. This was followed by a brief period of training under Pandit Chinmoy Lahiri.

Tehkikaat is a Hindi crime thriller series which became very popular when it was aired in the year 1994. It starred Vijay Anand and Saurabh Shukla as the popular detective duo playing the characters of Sam D’Silva and Gopichand. The format of the show is as such, that each episode is a new crime scene investigation and it is played out with gripping suspense, intense action and with a touch of humour. The show worked primarily because of the chemistry between the lead actors of Vijay Anand and Saurabh Shukla.

The history of music education in India dates back to the ancient period when all education was imparted in Gurukulas and Ashrams of great Saints and  Rishi-Munis. The system of modern institutionalization of education in a graded, time-bound structure was ushered in by the British rulers from the mid-nineteenth century. Indian music education was brought and structured in this system in the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Ali Akbar College of Music offers education in the classical music of North India at the highest professional level. Our primary instructors have studied with the legendary sarode master, Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, for many years and teach alongside our tabla master, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri. At the college, students learn the necessary musical skills, knowledge and understanding to contribute significantly to musical life. Our international student body ranges from beginner to accomplished professional. Facilities include several practice rooms, classrooms and a concert hall.

The Rabindra Bharati University was established in 1962 to mark the birth centenary of the legendary poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Indian as well as Asian recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a State University named after Tagore dedicated to the mission of disseminating his thoughts and ideas through humanities, social sciences, art and culture. The Rabindra Bharati University thus features uniqueness in projecting itself as a centre for higher learning in performing arts, fine arts, language, literature and social sciences.