First appeared in www.scroll.in on October 11, 2014. Sangeet in the Indian tradition originally referred to the shared and composite aesthetic space for vocal and instrumental music and dance.  The exchange of ideas between the three disciplines resonates to this day in their use of common terminology.  Unfortunately, we seem to have lost much of this shared space, due to a variety of reasons, although vocal and instrumental music continue to enjoy close ties. Professional hereditary women performers until