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Episode: Zarin Daruwala Sharma | Guftagoo with Irfan
Description: A 2014 recording. Zareen Daruwala was born on 9 October 1946. She was a child prodigy and a celebrated sarod player of India. Zarin had been known for her on-stage performances besides her trysts with the film studios in the tinsel city. She had been a pioneering female hand to play the sarod, a stringed instrument believed to have been an Indian adaptation of central Asia’s rabab. If its feature of having no frets makee many believe that sarod is tough to play, Zarin’s religion made her entry into north Indian classical look as someone all the more alien: ‘that Parsi gi...