Malini Rajurkar

Malini Rajurkar (8 January 1941 – 6 September 2023) was an Indian Hindustani classical singer of Gwalior Gharana.

For three years she taught mathematics at the Savitri Girls’ High School & College, Ajmer, where she had graduated in the same subject.

Taking advantage of a three-year scholarship that came her way, she finished her Sangeet Nipun from the Ajmer Music College, studying music under the guidance of Govindrao Rajurkar and his nephew, who was to become her future husband, Vasantrao Rajurkar.

Malini is noted especially for her command over the Tappa, her Khyal renditions and the Tarana genre.

Her renditions of Marathi natyageete, pandu-nrupati janak jaya, naravar krishnasamaan, ya bhavanatil geet purane have been particularly popular.