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Namita Devidayal

A life in song: Namita Devidayal on losing the melody – and finding it again

I started faltering. I could not keep up the rigour that this art form requires of its practitioners. I was too scared to carry on.

Namita Devidayal
· Jan 28, 2020 · 11:30 am
How classical music maestro Vilayat Khan reinvented the sitar in its modern avatar

Namita Devidayal’s new biography of the master of Indian classical music who made the sitar ‘sing’ like the human voice.

Namita Devidayal
· Nov 28, 2018 · 08:30 am