Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar 'sujan'

Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar ‘Sujan’ occupied a preeminent position in the spectacular developments in the field of Hindustani music in the twentieth century. A foremost disciple of Chatur Pandit Bhatkhande and a ganda-bandh shagird of the great Ustad Faiyaz Khan, Ratanjankar was an excellent performer, a learned scholar and a great guru with a number of accomplished disciples. Ratanjankar was principal of the Marris Music College, Lucknow, for three decades, director of Bhatkhande Sangeet Vidyapeeth and the first vice-chancellor of the Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalay, Kairagarh. As a frequent broadcaster and vice-chairman, Audition Board, he had a long association with All India Radio. A composer par excellence, he has over 750 compositions to his credit and wrote several authoritative books and articles, giving new dimensions to the entire musical complex. Ratanjankar was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 1957.