First appeared in www.scroll.in on May 17, 2014. Goa has given to Hindustani music some of its best women performers.  This was possible because of the immense talent that these musicians displayed and the training that they received from respected teachers in Mumbai, a city to which they migrated in large numbers starting from the nineteenth century. Shobha Gurtu, a popular performer with Goan antecedents, created a separate identity for herself as a thumri singer.  Taking elements essentially from