Anoushka Shankar

Last week, my dear Husband took me to Anoushka Shankar's concert in Delhi. I had heard few songs from her thanks to a great radio in France Nova. I spend the most wonderful evening. I am not usually a big fan of oriental musics, mostly because I don't know them much. I grew surrounded by Jazz, and somehow until now it is still my reference. Luckily, it also helps opening to other style of music...

On the other side Anoushka Shankar is not really traditional music, it mostly a fusion, of traditional indian instrument and other like drums, bass and hang drums....

Some pictures of the concert she held in Mumbai here

I mostly like the instrumental pieces, and I loved Metamorphosis

You can also enjoy a whole concert she gave in Lyon, in 2012

Enjoy the music.... in French here

Freedom at midnight

This enchanting title is actually the title of a very exciting book I finished a few weeks ago. And this week I couldn't help think about this book again with the passing of Nelson Mandela.

You can buy Freedom at midnight here, kindle, audio.... whatever the version you want.

This book was written in 1975 by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, it is a sort of India partition for dummies.... If I can say that...

I loved it, was great. Another vision for us european people of Gandhi, Nerhu, Jinah, Moundbatten...

It is amazing to realize that this event happened in 6 months or so, how ? How was born the world largest democracy ?
A great book, I advise you to offer to your "bookworm"  friends...

One tip though, for half of the book I wondered when east Pakistan became Bangladesh. It happened in 1971