Anoushka Shankar will perform in New Delhi on December 14.
New Delhi:
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is allset to perform her track on Delhi gangrape victim at a concerthere on Saturday (December 14, 2013).
The instrumental piece, named after the 23-year-old woman,was developed by the musician following the horrific incidentand is a part of her seventh studio album Traces of You.
"There is a song in the name of Delhi gangrape victim.It's an instrumental piece, I wrote it because I just neededto play my anger.
"I was in the studio making this whole album when theincident happened. I took my instrument and started playingraagshree, which is a very introvert and dark raag. I will beplaying this raag during my Delhi concert," Anoushka told PTI.
The 32-year-old Grammy nominated sitarist will perform atthe Talkatora stadium on December 14.
Anoushka said the track was her feeling about suchviolences faced by women.
"I was really in a dark place after hearing all the news.I was having a lot of pain and frustration. This piece is adirect response to my feelings about sexual violence. I namedthe song on the name of the victim," she said.
The sitraist had also launched an online campaigndemanding an end to crime against women after the incident.
The paramedic was brutally assaulted and gangraped by sixpeople inside a moving bus on December 16, last year,triggering a nationwide outrage.
She died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.
The instrumental piece, named after the 23-year-old woman,was developed by the musician following the horrific incidentand is a part of her seventh studio album Traces of You.
"There is a song in the name of Delhi gangrape victim.It's an instrumental piece, I wrote it because I just neededto play my anger.
"I was in the studio making this whole album when theincident happened. I took my instrument and started playingraagshree, which is a very introvert and dark raag. I will beplaying this raag during my Delhi concert," Anoushka told PTI.
The 32-year-old Grammy nominated sitarist will perform atthe Talkatora stadium on December 14.
Anoushka said the track was her feeling about suchviolences faced by women.
"I was really in a dark place after hearing all the news.I was having a lot of pain and frustration. This piece is adirect response to my feelings about sexual violence. I namedthe song on the name of the victim," she said.
The sitraist had also launched an online campaigndemanding an end to crime against women after the incident.
The paramedic was brutally assaulted and gangraped by sixpeople inside a moving bus on December 16, last year,triggering a nationwide outrage.
She died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.
