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The youngest disciple of Begum Akhtar,

 Rekha Surya, has also trained under

Girija Devi and has carved a niche for herself

in the world of Hindustani light classical

music.

Emotions or rasas that govern human lives are named in the Natya Shastra, a 400 B.C. treatise on music, dance and drama. Shringara Rasa, the emotion of romantic love, is the essence of Thumri and its allied forms of Dadra, Kajri, Jhoola, Sawan, Hori and Chaiti.

Classified as Hindustani light-classical music, this genre is a unique blend of rural and urban traditions, having folk songs treated classically. The theme is sensual love with the occasional two-sided motif of eroticism and mysticism, a Sufi and Bhakti Movement concept in which yearning for the beloved is interpreted as yearning for God.

 Nestling between two worlds, the worlds of classical and of light music, the light-classical genre bridges the gap between these two worlds and has a distinct identity of its             own.

Rekha Surya belongs to the Lucknow Gharana which includes Ghazal in its repertoire. She sings Thumri, Dadra, Hori, Kajri, Jhoola, Ghazal and Sufi poetry.

I will be singing at Anibhav Auditorium on 28th Oct. and in New York at Yale University on 8th Nov. and at Teachers College, Columbia  University on 19th Nov.

Sample of some musics