Serendipity Arts Festival 2024: The unique selling point of the multidisciplinary arts festival is the River Raag, and this year, the first time in nine years of the festival, percussion set pieces by Carnatic legends BC Manjunath (mridangam) and Suresh Vaidyanathan (ghatam) regaled the audiences afloat on river Mandovi in Goa.
Bickram Ghosh on doing a concert with the late Santoor maestro and Bollywood composer Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, and what set Pandit ji apart as an artiste and a human being.
"We wanted the passion of patriotism to pervade the track and at the same time, we wanted to showcase the wonderful diversity of Indian musical sounds and traditions." - Bickram Ghosh