According to me, education has a lot more to do with
learning from life than from the classroom. I have learned more outside the
classroom
In conversation with Vasundhara Das...
On
school life
School life has not
contributed much to my musical life. In those times, when I was in school, the education
system did not encourage arts. Academics were considered as the end of
everything. People thought that music cannot be opted as a career. Most of the
parents were prejudiced about music and had an attitude that it cannot be taken
as a profession, but my parents were an exception. At the age of 5, I started
learning Hindustani music. I got intensive music education because my parents
were very keen on making me learn music.
On
college life
College contributed a great
deal to my musical career. I was clear about going to that particular college
(Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru) because that college had a good music
association. I knew that the college would nurture my musical career.
I still remember the
day when my Mom took me to the Engineering counselling. I was standing in the
queue. When it was just two turns for my interview, I seemed restless to my Mom.
When she asked me the reason, I told her that I don’t want to be an engineer.
What surprised me was my Mom’s reaction; she told me that I could have said it
before and that there was no point in wasting our time. We left the spot. That
is a distinct memory for me.
In the college, I was
the member of a choral group. We had a Western Music Association. I got the
exposure of performing at various inter-college competitions. I won in many of them,
and that gave me a lot of confidence and helped prepare my future. I was very clear about music; that was what I
wanted to do as long as I was alive.
Memories
Too many. I really had
a ball. I enjoyed college than school. My first stage performance ever in
college was during my first-year PUC. About 4,000 girls in the auditorium are
booing you, because you are a junior. I started singing the song I love You, by Whitney Houston. There
was pin-drop silence, and, once I finished singing, there was a huge round of
applause by the entire audience. That is a memorable moment for me.
Click : Lakshmi
Article first appeared in education Insider Magazine
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