Soli Sorabjee once made plans to use Bangalore’s Raj Bhavan for jazz sessions
Stanley Pinto
Soli Sorabjee was one of India’s most eminent men. A leading jurist, who almost became governor of Karnataka, except that the government at the center changed and the new one junked that idea. That was sad. I can just imagine Bangalore’s staid Raj Bhavan rocking to the sounds of American composer and pianist Duke Ellington. But I am getting ahead of my story.
I first met Sorabjee in the mid-’70s. Niranjan Jhaveri, the country’s biggest jazz fan of those times, had the idea of putting together India’s first international jazz festival. And of course he called upon Sorabjee, and me, to......