The raags of the Ganesh pandals: The duets of Vinayakrao Patwardhan and Narayanrao Vyas

First appeared in www.scroll.in on September 26, 2015. Vinayakrao Patwardhan (1898-1975) and Narayanrao Vyas (1902-1984) were among the vocalists who were popular during the Saarvajanik Ganeshotsavs or public celebrations of Ganesh Chaturthi. Both were disciples of vocalist and music educationist Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (1872-1931).  They were among those who trained directly under Paluskar until 1915 at the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in Bombay. Despite their enrolment as students at this music school set up originally by Paluskar in Lahore in 1901 and

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