THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Narendra Firodia, Co-founder of You Care Lifestyle, is learning to play an unusual musical instrument

- SMITA TRIPATHI

HAVE YOU HEARD of the handpan? It’s a percussion musical instrument that originated about a decade and a half ago and looks a bit like a UFO. It’s a cross between a Caribbean Steel Pan

and the Indian Ghatam and is made of steel. When Narendra Firodia first heard about the handpan, he was fascinated. “I was struck with the sound the instrument made. It was very soothing,” says the 45-year-old Co-founder of You Care Lifestyle, an e-commerce platform for organic food and lifestyle products. So awestruck was he that he decided to learn to play it.