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Meet Kishore Desai, the Mandolin Maestro Behind “Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo” 

Meet the mandolin maestro behind the immortal “Aye mere watan ke logo”

Kishore Desai, music director and mandolin player. (Photographer: Aditya Mehrotra/BloombergQuint) 
Kishore Desai, music director and mandolin player. (Photographer: Aditya Mehrotra/BloombergQuint) 

As India celebrates 70 years of independence, Kishore Desai, celebrated music director and the mandolin maestro, takes a trip down the memory lane, and talks to BloombergQuint about “Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo”, a song so poignant that it moved Jawaharlal Nehru to tears.