First appeared in www.scroll.in on October 24, 2015. Continuing our series on raags named after their creators, today we turn to Bilas Khan, one of Mia Tansen’s sons, who is believed to have devised Bilaskhani Todi.  One of the stories surrounding the creation of this raag describes Bilas Khan singing this variant of Todi as a musical tribute at Tansen’s funeral. The first track features an aalaap in the raag Bilaskhani Todi by the famous rudra veena player Zia Mohiuddin Dagar.