First appeared in www.scroll.in on November 7, 2015. Raag Chandranandan, a creation of Ali Akbar Khan, sarod maestro and one of the chief exponents of the Maihar-Senia gharana, seems to be one of those exceptional raags that have been primarily performed by musicians belonging to a particular guru-shishya or master-disciple lineage.  In this case, it is popular mainly among the disciples and grand-disciples of the composer, and not so among others even from the same gharana.  A few other