The contribution of women as a string instrumentalist in the present era

Today’s, the role and contribution of women in the whole world is very important. Our society is seemed to me empty and meaningless without their contributions. Indian classical music’s instrumental sphere has been lacking in woman torch bearers, however this generation is changing the fabric. We bring a numbers of stories for these seven women (Annapurna Devi, Anoushkha Shanker’s, Dr. Smt. Padhambhushana N Rajam (Violin), Nandini and Ragini Shankar (Violin), Anupama Bhagwat (Sitar), Mita Nag (Sitar), Jayanthi Kumaresh (Veena)) instrumentalists who are going to bring a sudden mind blowing change or the winds of change in this traditional space.It’s 2022 and women are breaking ground old and new in India. When it comes to the music business, there couldn’t have been a better time to join the dynamic industry, where women are increasingly leading the way, whether from the frontline or behind the scenes. There’s a shift in how women are represented in the music industry as they continue to champion many wins to be celebrated.While the list of women artists in Bollywood that they might discover on streaming platforms is expanding steadily, there’s a growing breed of leaders in the fields of business, production, management and legal that are making their presence felt. Last year saw Indian-American rapper Raja Kumari judged India’s first hip-hop reality show and playback artist Neha Kakkar is officially TikTok India’s most popular creator. But recent statistics from across the ocean — in absence of our own — call for action on the way ahead. A report by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative (based on 800 popular songs from 2013 and 2022) revealed that only two percent of charting songs were produced by women while 12 percent of songwriters on the charts were women. It also found that 25 percent of women often find that they’re the only woman in the recording studio. In, the present paper, researcher is going to focus on the life, work and contribution such eminent and scholastics classical string instrumentalist women in the stream of Indian classical string instrumental music in the present era.