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Maestro’s Daughters: A musical legacy

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Ustad Afzalur Rahman is one of Bangladesh(***)s most famous classical musicians
Published On 4 Jul 20114 Jul 2011
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Ustad was blind but as a young boy music gave him hope; redefining his life and giving it purpose
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When he taught his wife and his two visually impaired daughters how to play, it gave their family a new identity
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They called themselves the Inner Eyes Family Orchestra
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Ustad Afzalur Rahman(***)s skills as a sarod player are legendary, but in December 2009 he passed away
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The maestro(***)s daughters have both inherited their father(***)s amazing talent
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Ustad(***)s daughters now bear the responsibility of carrying on their father(***)s legacy
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The sisters are in their 30s and uneducated and their mother desperately worries for their future
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The family had arranged a tribute concert for the maestro, before which they practised three times a day
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Without their father, the young women have to make it on their own in a country that is still largely patriarchal
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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
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Ruba and Tungtang are in the process of submitting all the papers for their school and hope to register as an official NGO soon


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