Journeys with and through Music

Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy is a singer, composer. Bindhu constantly strives to explore avenues outside of her classical roots to play with the soul stirring power that music has. She has journeyed to various hamlets, villages, cities and countries sharing the songs and poems of various mystic saints of India. She directed music for feature and documentary films in Tamil, Kannada and other languages.

She won the National Award and Filmfare Award as Best Singer for the songs she created and sang in the film Nathicharami

Bindhumalini has been expanding her craft, community and repertoire through multidisciplinary collaborations

Tejaswini Niranjana is Director, Centre for Asian Studies, GITAM University, India. Her books include Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad (2006), and Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious (2020), both published by Duke University Press. Recently, she edited Music, Modernity and Publicness in India (Oxford UP, 2020).

She is the co-producer of three documentary films related to music, and the curator of Saath-Saath, the India-China music collaboration project (http://saathsaathmusic.com). Her book, Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context (University of California Press, 1992), has impacted a wide range of fields from anthropology and history to post-colonial studies.

She is also an award-winning translator, most recently awarded with the National Translation Prize for Fiction by the American Literary Translators’ Association.