MUSIC artiste and sitar player Anoushka Shankar was on a three-city tour to India in December last year where she presented her new work and in particular, the work that pays homage to countless women around the world who are victims of violence.
One of the new songs that she released during the tour In Her Name is inspired by her original version of the song In Jyoti’s Name, something which she composed as a mark of respect for Nirbhaya (Jyoti Singh) who was brutally gang raped in December 2012 in Delhi - an incident that shook the entire world.
The track, In Her Name, was premiered December (house style, no abbreviations) 16, to mark the 10th anniversary of the horrific incident. The song was renamed to highlight the universal nature of the violence against women that we see daily.
Clearly, Anoushka is one of the few of the genre-defying artists of our times who wish to speak out - and not just entertain us through her music.
Born in London to great Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, Anoushka started training on the sitar with her father at the age of seven. Music is in her blood and had been...
