Team

Pandit Satyasheel Deshpande founded Samvaad Foundation in 1983 and remains its primary driving force. He is an unconventional, creative and widely loved Hindustani Musician, a captivating performer, a brilliant composer, a respected researcher and an acclaimed author. More Here.

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Srijan Deshpande is a performer, researcher, educator, and archivist of Hindustani Khayal music. He has taught music at Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad and at the FLAME University Pune while also curating at Saptak Archives, Ahmedabad. Srijan writes on music for The Hindu and Scroll.in and is currently pursuing a doctoral research project at the Manipal Centre for Humanities, in which he is attempting to construct a rigorous account of Pt. Kumar Gandharva’s musical alterity in the context of the twentieth-century tradition of the khayal. More Here.

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Smit Dharia is a Hindustani Khayal vocalist and educator. He has been involved in archival dissemination activities for which he was awarded the Sahapedia-UNESCO fellowship and a grant from the Indian Foundation for the Arts . He has taught music at Flame University, Pune and NMIMS Mumbai and has been a consulting curator at Saptak Archives, Ahmedabad. View his work here.