Neela Ramgopal recalls growing up as an ignorant child who once was barely prepared to sing in front of an audience, eventually going on to guide thousands of singers in their pursuit of Carnatic Shastriya Sangeeta. When we asked Neela maami (as she is fondly called by her students) to describe her journey of eighty-three years to us, she said with her natural stoic and effortless precision, “My life is very flowery”.
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