How an Indian news agency quoted sources that do not exist
That's the title of the EU DisinfoLab's latest investigation.
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We’ll shortly be announcing an event with Abhishek Borkar, so watch this space. He is rapidly gaining recognition as one of India’s finest young sarod players. His father Pandit Shekhar Borkar is a renowned maestro of the instrument who also invented the surtarang ('wave of notes'), a combination of sarod and veena. He trained his sons Abhishek and Praashekh in his own tarankaar baaz playing style, which mixes the Maihar gharana of Ustad Allauddin Khan with ideas from khayal vocal music, notably including intricate ornamentation of taans (melodic lines).
The EU DisinfoLab unveiled its latest investigation this week into anti-Pakistan/China influence operations from India and follows up on two previous investigations published in 2019 and 2020.
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