My Lab Of Learning

The seventh generation in a family of classical musicians, the scion of the Senia Bangash Gharana had to unlearn years of training for Bollywood

- Ayaan Ali Bangash

MUSIC HAS BEEN MY LIFE since the day I was born. To me, a job is paid work that may mean stepping out of your comfort zone and for which you are accountable. I came closest to having one in the years 1999–2000 when I was asked to appear as a judge and then offered to host the television programme Sa Re Ga Ma (later known as Sa Re Ga Ma Pa). Producer– director Gajendra Singh offered the job to my brother Amaan and I. At a time when the television industry had not yet gone through its boom and the culture of reality TV hadn’t yet seeped into our lives,