Maestro’s Daughters: A musical legacy

Ustad was blind but as a young boy music gave him hope; redefining his life and giving it purpose

When he taught his wife and his two visually impaired daughters how to play, it gave their family a new identity

They called themselves the Inner Eyes Family Orchestra

Ustad Afzalur Rahman(***)s skills as a sarod player are legendary, but in December 2009 he passed away

The maestro(***)s daughters have both inherited their father(***)s amazing talent

Ustad(***)s daughters now bear the responsibility of carrying on their father(***)s legacy

The sisters are in their 30s and uneducated and their mother desperately worries for their future

The family had arranged a tribute concert for the maestro, before which they practised three times a day

Without their father, the young women have to make it on their own in a country that is still largely patriarchal

Like their father the two sisters teach blind boys twice a week, but more than anything else, they want to start a school that will accept blind girls as well

Ruba and Tungtang are in the process of submitting all the papers for their school and hope to register as an official NGO soon

Maestro’s Daughters: A musical legacy

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