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The maestro, who has been honored with the nation's second highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, makes a special effort to explain his pieces at concerts, pausing between his wizardry on the tabla to tell the audience what it is all about.
One of his concert specials is the Tope Ka Gola -- which almost replicates the effect of the firing of cannons. At the Banaras concert in June, he told the story of a mridangam player whose left hand was cut off by a cruel king so he could not perform outside the kingdom. Undeterred, Pandit Kishan Maharaj said, the artiste wrote 400 pieces for the mridangam that only required use of the right hand.
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