Sharan Rani has been played on NTS in shows including Raga Vibrations, featured first on 21 August 2017. Songs played include Raga Hemant, Raga Yaman Kalyan and Solo De Tabla.

Legendary Sarod player Pandita Sharan Rani was a trailblazer in Hindustani classical music in every sense of the word. Credited for opening the doors of Hindustani instrumental music for women, she was not only the first woman to take up Sarod professionally but also the first woman instrumentalist in the country. Born on 9 April 1929 in Delhi, Sharan Rani hailed from a family of non-musicians who were businessmen and educationists. Considered to be amongst…