Monday, January 16, 2012

Gehlot offers treatment for Mehdi Hassan

  • Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has offered treatment to the ailing ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan in India.
  • The 84-year-old patriarch, now on ventilator in a private hospital in Karachi in Pakistan with a serious lung condition, hails from Rajasthan's Shekhawati region. 
  • Though nobody from the family lives in their native Luna village in Jhunjhunu district there are childhood friends like 91-year-old Narain Singh Shekhawat, still remembering him as a young boy taking music lessons from his father Azim Jaan and wrestling in the sand. 
  • Young Mehdi had left the village one year before Partition at the age of 12.

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