A concert was held recently in Delhi where Kolkata-based Deb Prasad Chakravorty, disciple of the late Ajoy Sinha Roy performed sitar recital for two hours. He has also received guidance under late Baba Alauddin Khan and his younger brother Ayet Ali Khan.

He brought the evening to life playing some brilliant tones. He began his recital with the most appropriate dusk-time raga Puriya Dhanashri. The long lasting alap, jod and jhala were comprehensively rendered which summed the entire scheme of the sitar encircling all the three-and-a-half octaves. He handled the bass strings very neatly. However he presented the ragas in a straight manner instead of interlacing them, and this came as a disappointment. This followed the season's raga Mian-ki-Malhar, followed by the slow 16-beat Masitkhani gat-toda, and ended with a speedy Teen tala composition in raga Hemant (composed by late Ustad Alauddin Khan of Maiher) with a Madhyam note and brilliant jhala sequence. He produced rich and innovative, slow and fast Teen tala gat-todas in raga Piloo. However his experimentation with age-old compositions were not impressive enough.