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A legend leaves us
August 26, 2006
Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan died of cardiac arrest in the wee hours of Monday morning. The 91-year-old Bharat Ratna awardee, who had been admitted to Heritage hospital on August 17 with age-related health problems, passed away at 2.20 am.Khan's condition had marginally improved on Sunday. He had appeared to be in the best of spirits and even sang a couple of songs for attending doctors. After his demise, Khan's body was brought to his residence in the Harha Sarai locality by his family members, where a large number of people, including his relatives and well wishers, had gathered to pay their last respects to the departed icon.
Image: Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan performs in Srinagar on September 12, 2005.
Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
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