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Thiruvananthapuram
Sitarist Renu Jain
I am a perfectionist. I keep chiselling, polishing my style, my own compositions." With these few words Renu Jain, disciple of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, made clear her attitude towards music. Ms. Jain is in the city to give a sitar concert at the inaugural ceremony of `Sadhassu,' a cultural society being formed under the baton of music director M.G. Radhakrishnan. The concert will be held at Mascot Hotel on Wednesday. In a brief interaction with mediapersons in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, Ms. Jain recounted the difficulties she faced, as one not born into a family of music, in learning the sitar. "Initially I was told to sit with both my legs to one side with the sitar placed on the floor. This, I was told, was the women's position," she said. This later led to her developing lumbar pain. In fact, the doctors even asked her to give up sitar. "I gave up everything else for sitar," she explained. Ms. Jain said she would like to teach sitar, but only to those who are as keen as her in mastering the instrument.
G. MAHADEVAN
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