Top 10 – Khayyam, the steadfast ‘mausiqaar’.

As a couplet in one of his song goes, “Bik gaya joh woh kharidar nahin ho sakta’ (You have nothing left to buy when you sell yourself), Khayyam would not put his soul on sale even when he was down for the count. In turn, he became the last great custodian of musical fidelity.