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'''Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan''' born 30 August 1953 in [[Nagpur]], [[Maharshatra]] ([[India]]) is a civil engineer from Govt College of Engineering, Amravati (GCoEA) in 1975 and a law graduate who has profound knowledge and interest in [[Indian classical music]]. He is the first person in recent centuries to unveil and demonstrate the [[Sarana Chatushtai]] as originally suggested by [[Bharata Muni]] in the [[Natya Shastra|Bharata Natya Shastra]] which is the only way to obtain 22 [[Śruti|srutis]] (notes useful to music) on a musical instrument. He started his career as an engineer with the state government of [[Maharashtra]]. Later he went into teaching civil engineering and eventually joined social work. He was a part of the Knit India movement (1985–1988) and Narmada Bachao Andolan (1998-1993) with late [[Baba Amte]]. He also worked with Dr. [[Vikas Amte]] for Earthquake Relief at Killari, [[Maharashtra]] (1993–1994). He started his research on [[Indian classical music]] in the 1990s which led to his work on the [[Sarana Chatushtai]] and later he also evolved a methodology to develop perfectly tuned flutes.<br />
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==Research on Indian Classical Music==<br />
Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan's research on [[Indian classical music]] led to the successful demonstration of the [[Sarana Chatushtai]] in the year 1998. This was the first time in many centuries that this has been actually proved subjectively and objectively on flute as well as a stringed instrument. Other than Bharat Muni, him and probably Sharang Dev, there is no evidence of any other musicologists realizing the existence of [[Śruti|srutis]] as per [[Natya Shatra|Bharata Natya Shatra]]. His work has been acknowledged by music experts and he has also presented a paper on the same at [[ITC Sangeet Research Academy]], Calcutta, India at the National Symposium on Acoustics (1998). This demonstration proves incorrect, the assumption by Pandit [[Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande]], who has criticized the concept of existence of [[Śruti|srutis]] itself in his book Bhartiya Sangita Paddhati [Vol 2] (written in the late 18th or early 19th century).<br />
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Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan later also evolved a methodology to develop perfectly tuned flutes for ten thatas in the present [[Indian classical music]] using both bamboo and PVC material.<br />
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In Nov 2014, his book "Shruti Darpan" was published which is suitable reading for music scholars as well as research students in [[Indian classical music]].<br />
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==Others==<br />
Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan is the author of the first Indian book on the solution for [[Rubik's Cube]] which was published in 1981. He is also the nephew of late renowned Indian social worker [[Baba Amte]].<br />
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==References==<br />
1. Publication : Paper authored by Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan unveiling the fundamental principles governing [[Indian classical music]] by research on [[Bharata Muni| Bharata Muni's]] [[Natya Shastra]] at the National Symposium on Acoustics (1998), ITC Sangeet Research Academy, [[Calcutta]], [[India]].<br />
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