Hasuben Patel has gifted three sitars to the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the sitars was made by the renowned sitar maker Hiren Roy of Kolkata and was gifted to Ustad Vilayat Khan. Patel specializes in the ‘gayaki ang’ style of playing sitar developed by Khan.
Mid-day took a trip to Antroli, Niyol and Mohni villages in Surat district where villagers who’ve received some of the highest land compensations for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project are wrestling with a range of emotions from ecstasy to confusion