Sh. Saurabh Banaudha is an Indian composer and one of the strongly emerging young flutists of India. He is a soloist as well as a flute accompanist belonging to the eminent Varanasi Gharana. He started learning flute at the tender age of eleven from the Guru and his father Late Pandit Niranjan Prasad, who was an internationally acclaimed flutist. Before switching over to flute, he also learnt Mandolin and Tabla for a period of around three years also from his father. He was also fortunate to receive lessons from his grandfather and Dada-Guru Late Pandit Bholanath Prasanna, who was one of the expert flute and shehnai maestro from the Varanasi Gharana.

His education into the domain of music has been carried with pure dedication in the form of Guru-Shishya Parampara. At the age of just 15 years, he gave his first solo performance on Doordarshan and has been a part of the regular performances on Doordarshan and All India Radio since then. In the due course of time, he won several awards & competitions ranging from U.P. Sangeet Natak Akademy (Kishore, Yuva groups) to that becoming the All India Flute Champion in the year 2000.

His capacity and capability in the art have made his presence noticed among the domain fraternity. Besides performing at major festivals and state level mahotsav’s etc., he has been featuring regularly in other such music concerts as both a solo performer as well as an accompanist. His participation in the World Cultural Festival in Delhi in 2016 also involved him as a group trainer training more than 300 all instrument artists of NCR and around.

He has also been associated and composed for some key organizations/ noted bodies like Art of Living, ISKCON, Sangeet Natak Akademy, AYUSH, YMCA, FICCI, NTPC & IFCI etc. and has been widely appreciated for the same. He has been associated with several eminent artists like Padma Vibhushan Dr. Yamini Krishnamurthy, Padma Shri Dr. Kiran Segal, Padma Shri Gita Mahalik, Padma Shri Shovana Narayan, Padma Shri Ustad F Wasifuddin Dagar, Padma Shri Ranjana Gauhar, U.P. Sangeet Natak academy awardee Sh. Rajeev Shukla and Sh Amjad Khan etc. and is equally appreciated by them for his skillful and in-depth blowing of the instrument. He is empaneled with the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India for festivals of India abroad.

He has also experimented and worked on diverse musical synergies in the form of Jugalbandi, duets and instrumental chorus covering instruments like Piano, Clairnet, Spanish Guitar, Congo & Drum etc.

As a trainer himself, he not only imparts the lessons of flute playing but also how to build up the character and devotion towards the sacred art of music following the tradition of Guru Shishya Parampara. He also runs an NGO by the name Niranjan Dhara (Erstwhile Dr. Ambedkar Sangeet Akademy) extending arms not only for the domain of music but also for social service at large.

Sh. Saurabh Banaudha is an ardent and devoted flute player, committed to spread this art in all corners of the world displaying the exquisite combinations of command and techniques therein. He possesses the right balance of strength and serenity, very critical factors for an exceptional flautist with a continuous zeal for innovative techniques and compositions. His presentation includes engaging presentation of both laykari and tantrakari styles of music.

Other than this, he has also acquired B.E. degree in the field of computer science and currently working as DGM (IT) at NTPC Limited. His other area of interest includes public speaking, handwriting analysis and theme based sketching etc.

I have been working in NTPC Limited since 2004 as a Software Professional.

I have worked as Database administrator, Server Administrator, on Web Development, Mobile Development on varied platforms, am a certified ethical hacker and Speaker in many organizations on Security.

I graduated as a Computer Science Engineer in 2000.

Graphology is the analysis of the physical characteristics and patterns of handwriting purporting to be able to identify the writer, indicating psychological state at the time of writing, or evaluating personality characteristics.

A person's handwriting - the script - and its placing on the page express the unique impulses of the individual: logically, the brain sends signals along the muscles to the writing implement they control. By examining a handwriting sample, an expert graphologist is able to identify relevant features of the handwritten script, and the way the features interact. The features, and interaction between them, provide the information for the analysis. (No single handwriting sample will exhibit all 300 different features of course - a typical analysis will involve far less).

No single handwriting feature proves anything specific or absolute by itself; a single feature alone can only identify a trend. It is the combination of features, and the interaction between them that enable a full and clear interpretation.

Graphology is actually a very old and respected science - the study of handwriting and its analysis was first developed by the Chinese 3,000 years ago. The Romans used graphology, and through the centuries since then various civilisations and cultures have analysed handwriting to identify the essence of the person who produced it.

Through the medium of 'Niranjan Dhaara' erstwhile 'Dr Ambedkar Sangeet Akademy', an NGO, and by involving in other such bodies, I seek to make the world a better place.

I take classes in Noida on weekends to aspiring students to revive our beautiful form of music- the flute.