[1] Keskar worked as a lecturer at Benaras' Sanskrit Vidyapith and was trained in dhrupad by Hari Narayan Mukherji of Banaras.

Gradually, All India Radio began to lose listeners and revenue forcing it in 1957 to launch the Vividh Bharati service.

[18] Keskar has however been credited with providing the common man with access to classical music and musicians with patronage that had disappeared with the abolition of princely states after independence.

[20] In 1954, the annual Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan was started by All India Radio that served as a platform for both established and emerging young artistes in Indian classical music.

[22] Keskar lost the General Elections of 1962 from Fatehpur[23] and was defeated again, this time by the Socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia, in the by-election from the Farrukhabad parliamentary constituency in 1963.

[24] Indira Gandhi is said to have told Roberto Rossellini that Keskar had managed to retain his post for so long only because there was an "acute shortage of ministerial talent" in newly independent India.