In Her Name by Anoushka Shankar
World-famous musician and composer Anoushka Shankar is renowned for her proficiency with the sitar, a classic Indian stringed instrument.
At an early age, Anoushka began studying the sitar with her father, and at the age of 13, she had her stage debut. Since then, she has given performances in some of the most illustrious locations in the world, such as Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, and the Hollywood Bowl. She has also worked with a wide range of other musicians, including Norah Jones, Herbie Hancock, and Sting.
World-famous musician and composer Anoushka Shankar is renowned for her proficiency with the sitar, a classic Indian stringed instrument.
At an early age, Anoushka began studying the sitar with her father, and at the age of 13, she had her stage debut. Since then, she has given performances in some of the most illustrious locations in the world, such as Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, and the Hollywood Bowl.
She has also worked with a wide range of other musicians, including Norah Jones, Herbie Hancock, and Sting.
Anoushka has put out a number of her own CDs, fusing traditional Indian music with contemporary sounds to produce an original and cutting-edge sound. For her work, she has received various honors, including several Grammy nominations.
This time the talented singer “Anoushka Shankar“. has a new song titled “In Her Name”.
Lyrics: In Her Name by Anoushka Shankar
What do you call the ashes of a girl
If not sacred?
When the embers are cradled by the wind,
Do the gods cry for what could have been?
If it is cruel hands that have taken a life,
Why then do we forget the injustice?
Instead let us collect as sisters in mourning.
Let our fury echo through the pages of history.
Do not let this death be quiet
Like all the thousands before it.
Time cannot devour
What we will not allow to be forgotten.
So do not forget her name.
Remember her.
Remember every girl like her who was lost to us.
Every girl who prayed to a God that abandoned her.
Call your rage something holy.
Call it the best incarnation you have ever known.
Make the goddess of justice we all deserve.
The kind of divinity we can all truly believe in.
Carve a temple made of a fire which never dies until we are all … safe.
Let the wind take these embers, these ashes and
Build a goddess of wild fire in her name.