Simla House

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About Simla House

The evolution of Indian music over thousands of years has engendered a rich variety of 'schools' known as gharanas, each with its own unique approach to the musical idiom. Just as in the ecological sphere, where humanity in the twentieth century gave inordinate preponderance to select commercially viable species, and as a result, where we witnessed the extinction of entire species of plant and animal life, so too, many of Indian classical music's gharanas have become endangered species, with an irreparable loss to human culture. The Kalavant Center proposes to address this imbalance, so as to nurture the renaissance of Indian classical music as a whole, ensuring cultural diversity for the benefit of humanity.