Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation

Amit Chaudhuri abandoned western pop for Indian classical music years ago. But, writes the novelist and musician, he's returned to it via the most unexpected routeI did my best to escape music as a child, running very fast whenever my mother tried to teach me the Tagore songs she sang so beautifully, but my genes ensured music would eventually return to me, or I to it. On the other hand, the desire to be a writer, or someone who dealt with words, came early: from wanting to be the commander of a...

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