In India's search for a new identity in a sweeping history of influences, one man and his effort stand out as having given new meaning to this art: Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande. In an art form that came to spell disconnectedness from contemporary life, Pandit Bhatkhande emperically collected, rationally organised and painstakingly codified Indian music. He exposed it to rational understanding,
methodical structuring, and aesthetic theory through four volumes of "Hindustani Sangeet Paddhati" and two treatises in Sanskrit on Raag Sangeet titled "Shreemallakshya Sangeetam" and "Abhinav raag Manjari". He also compiled thousands of traditional compositions in various Raagas in six volumes of Kramik Pustak Malike for which he invented a system of notation and for the first time ever, Hindustani Raag compositions were documented. This monumental work has greatly benefited music students, teachers, and performing artists alike. Through the work of Bhatkhande's student, the legendary scholar and musician, Pandit S.N. Ratanjankar, this renewed enlivened music has reached the present day musical fraternity. This happened through teaching, performing, writing, and composing and now continues to enrich audiences and thousands of students.
'Svarit' aims at carrying forward this grand lineage and artistic expansion through the work of Pandit Dinkar Kaikini, disciple of Pandit S.N. Ratanjankar, so that India's traditional music continues to influence global culture. It is an earnest effort of the trust to protect and promote the grandeur of this art that Indian continues to represent in the world through Pandit Kaikini's creative works and to make known and appreciated the parampara's selfless transference of a multifaceted complex art to everyone; from casual audiences to children, from novices to experienced musicians.
