To begin with, if you’re not a non-fiction reader and avoided exploring the genre of biography, after picking up this book, you would feel how lame were your inhibitions. I finished reading this 300 page book in one week- a feat that I had never achieved earlier and thanks to my dear friend D, who suggested me this wonderful book. It was the curiosity to know about the first gramophone record celebrity, Gauhar Jaan, and the status of Hindustani Classical music women maestros at the beginning of the 20th century that continuously prompted me to turn one more page. The urge to …