Tag: Vijay Gupta

"Malhaars are ragas that are designed to beckon rain...am I somehow beckoning the thing that I am trying to write about the disappearance of?"

"I feel that every day I pick up the instrument is an opportunity to reinvent myself better, better in the image of the instrument, which will always be better than me, better in the image of the composer's living or recently dead or long dead, who are often also humbling figures in in one's psyche."