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Ep 426: The Life and Music of Shubha Mudgal

Ep 426: The Life and Music of Shubha Mudgal

Update: 2025-09-08
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She's straddled the worlds of Hindustani classical and popular music, and is a legend in both spaces. Shubha Mudgal joins Amit Varma in episode 426 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her life, her music and this changing world.

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Also check out:
1. Shubha Mudgal on SpotifyInstagramTwitterWikipedia and her own website.
2. Looking for Miss Sargam: Stories of Music and Misadventure -- Shubha Mudgal.
3. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors — Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen.
4. Lady Doctors : The Untold Stories Of India’s First Women In Medicine — Kavitha Rao.
5. The Heckman Equation — a website based on James Heckman’s work.
6. The Disciple — Chaitanya Tamhane.
7. A Chess Story (previously published as The Royal Game) — Stefan Zweig.
8. The Light in Winter -- Episode 97 of Everything is Everything.
9. The Köln Concert (YouTubeSpotify) -- Keith Jarrett.
10. Danish Husain and the Multiverse of Culture — Episode 359 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. Aneesh Pradhan on ScrollAmazonInstagramTwitter and his own website.
12. Stories in a Song -- Sunil Shanbag, Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan.
13. Nothing Without You/Tery Bina -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
14. How Music Works -- David Byrne.
15. Acoustic analysis of two Hindu temples in Southern India -- Shashank Aswathanarayana & Braxton Boren.
16. Begum Akhtar on Spotify and YouTube.
17. Uzr Aane Mein Bhi Hai -- Begum Akhtar.
18. Woh Jo Ham Men Tum Men Qarar Tha -- Begum Akhtar.
19. Siddheshwari Devi on Spotify and YouTube.
20. Shayam Prem Gagariyaa Bhaari -- Siddheshwari Devi.
21. Latcho Drom -- Tony Gatlif.
22. Yeh Kothewaliya -- Amritlal Nagar.

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Episode art: ‘Song' by Simahina.

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Ep 426: The Life and Music of Shubha Mudgal

Ep 426: The Life and Music of Shubha Mudgal

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