Devour Music

Raag Charukeshi
Rudra Veena: Madhuvanti

There are instruments one plays.

And then there are instruments that remember.

This Charukeshi was played upon an old Veena of mine, made in the winter of 2019. She was my companion through the long and peculiar years of the lockdown — through hours and hours of practice, solitude, silence, and music.

It was upon this very Veena that I recorded my first album, The Holy Mother, in 2022 or early 2023.

And then, as these things sometimes happen, I left