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'For this Muslim musician who is as particular about his namaaz as he is about practising playing the shehnai,' Sharat Pradhan reported on rediff.com in June, 'there is no better place to practise than the banks of the Ganga, the holy river of the Hindus.'
'"Music transcends all barriers, more so that of religion," the Ustad says. "In fact, music is a religion in itself. Far from discriminating between man and man, it binds people together -- and so does the Ganga."'
'Later, sitting in a rickety wooden chair on the terrace of his three-storied house at the end of a winding by-lane in Varanasi, Ustadji says, "Playing before the Ganga is like praying to God."'
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