First appeared in www.scroll.in on February 28, 2015. Raags Basant and Bahar have inspired musicians to blend them with other established raags to give them a different hue. The presentation of these compound, or jod, raags can be of a cerebral nature and one cannot deny that it requires a high degree of command over the craft. But such raags become accessible and attractive when performers accept the challenge to transcend the grammar and create an aesthetic image of