LOOKING FOR MISS SARGAM:STORIES OF MUSIC AND MISADVENTURE

‘seven sparkling side-splitting yarns about the financial shenanigans pettiness and pitfalls of India’s giant music industry.’ —Telegraph What happens when a cunning PR brain brings together star singers from India and Pakistan in a concert for peace? Or when a Hindustani vocalist long denied a foreign tour flies from Pune to Philadelphia? How does it all end when a harmonium player desirous of a Padma Shri Award comes to a mighty Ustad for a recommendation? Or when a Hollywood director phones a classical singer offering to make her a sensation? And is it really a good idea for an old-world recording company to reinvent itself for the twenty-first century or a bhajan-singer to compose songs for Hollywood? In her debut work of fiction one of India’s finest and most musicians gives us some startling supremely entertaining answers. .