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Shuchi Roy joined Anahad Foundation as the Managing Director. She takes care of artists’
copyrights and Intellectual Property (IP) issues, besides being actively engaged with them on the ground.
Her possession of managerial skills and passion for folk musicians has helped her reach out to these artists. Shuchi besides her role as the managing director also looks after Anahad’s daily legal activities.
In a conversation with
SocialStory, Shuchi discusses her journey with Anahad, and how the foundation has managed to impact over 5,000 Indian folk artists.
SocialStory [SS]: What was the inspiration behind the Anahad Foundation?
Shuchi Roy [SR]: Anahad Foundation was established in 2013 when my husband Abhinav and I were in our third year of graduation. The inspiration stemmed from
The young creative bringing India’s rural folk musicians to the world – via a backpack
Abhinav Agrawal (centre) sits with folk musicians as he sets up his mobile studio in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India.
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8 January 2021
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Abhinav Agrawal (centre) sits with folk musicians as he sets up his mobile studio in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India.
(Anahad Foundation
)
In 2011 when Abhinav Agrawal was studying architecture in the central Indian city of Bhopal, every weekend he would catch a random train to visit a different part of the country. Getting off at both teeming cities and remote, rural villages he would set off to explore each region’s folk music, inspired by his love for the sheer diversity of styles, sounds and instruments, and his training as a classical vocalist and tabla player.