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Music is the art that permeates every human society, in one form or another. Many famous philosophers recognised its association with the soul. A universal art, it has been attributed the power to have healing powers, to help crops grow, to cause cows to yield more milk and to create rain and to light lamps. Such is its relationship to the human and animal senses and nature as a whole.

Indian classical tradition is unique because it has a long unbroken, though continuously evolving record since the Vedic times, about 4000 years ago. It has developed over the centuries into a music of profound melodic and rhythmic intricacy, through the Guru-Shishya Parampara (Teacher-Student tradition). In this tradition an aspiring musician apprentices himself to a guru, lives with him, serves him with devotion and learns from him in total humility. It is a very close relationship, a spiritual discipline, a path of realisation, in which the singing and playing of instruments becomes a spiritual exploration and an endeavour towards harmony of the individual being with the all-pervading reality.

The essence of Indian Classical Music is the art of improvisation, using the fundamental interplay between swara (notes) and tala (rhythm). The infinite variety of ragas and the unbelievable complexities of Indian rhythm patterns, together with an amazing assortment of vocal techniques and instruments of all classes, have produced a genre of music, that has engaged brilliant musicians and demanding listeners for centuries.

Virasat Foundation is an organization dedicated to preserve and promote the rich culture, traditions and heritage of India. Virasat means what belongs to all of us, what has been handed over to us by earlier generations and that which we have to hold on to and pass on to the next generations. It is this Virasat, that makes us what we are and will contribute to our next generation what they are. Our mission is to preserve, promote and develop what is best in Virasat in its full grandeur and hand over to our coming generations a treasure greater than what our last generations handed over to us. This includes providing a climate for holding concerts and various social activities, perpetuating the cultural aspects such as Indian classical music, folk music, fine arts, etc., conducting educational programs, promoting Indian languages and traditional medicines and other services to the people.