'The art of ghazal-singing nurtured in the kothas might easily have turned into an embarrassing skeleton in our cultural closet had Begum Akhtar not claimed a space for it in the most esteemed music sammelans.' - SALEEM KIDWAI 'Wrenching the thumri from its moorings in the salons of the rasik rajas and talukdars of Upper India, she brought it to…
From the bestselling author of The Forest of Enchantments. 'Stunning and moving...Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is writing at the very top of her game' - William Dalrymple
