Ustad Rashid Khan ...

" an assurance for the future of Indian vocal music"

"There is now at least one person in sight who is an assurance for the future of Indian vocal music", said Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, voicing a few years ago, the concern of connoisseurs of Hindustani vocal music about whether its tradition of excellence would continue.

It indeed has - with Ustad Rashid Khan, the young maestro, one of the leading torch-bearers.