RAS question
Grammy Award winner from Rajasthan is:
Correct answer: (B) Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.
Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is the Grammy Award winner from Rajasthan, having won in 1994 for A Meeting by the River with Ry Cooder.
Explanation
Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is the Rajasthan-linked Grammy winner because the official Sangeet Natak Akademi profile identifies him as born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, and records that his first fusion music album with Ry Cooder, A Meeting by the River, won him the Grammy Award in 1994. The award was for the Best World Music Album A Meeting by the River, made with the American guitarist Ry Cooder. Bhatt is also a distinctive cultural figure: he modified and Indianised a Western instrument and called it the Mohan Veena, placing him within Rajasthan's modern classical and fusion-music profile.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Sangeet Natak Akademi attributes the 1994 Grammy-winning album to Vishwa Mohan Bhatt with Ry Cooder, not to the Manganiyar group.
- (C) The Langa group is not the Jaipur-born musician whose album A Meeting by the River won a Grammy in 1994.
- (D) Sangeet Natak Akademi specifically identifies Vishwa Mohan Bhatt as the Rajasthan-born artiste associated with the 1994 Grammy-winning album, not Alla Jilai Bai.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan art and culture through internationally recognised musicians and folk-classical traditions. RAS repeats such questions because awards, artistes and state-linked cultural identities are compact, high-yield facts.