Mita Nag & Rimpa Siva | Raag Bhimpalasi | Sitar & Tabla | Music for the Mind & Soul | #Milap

Milap’s iconic Indian classical music concert series ’Music for the Mind & Soul’ is now online with exclusive studio recordings made especially for you! Our concert are designed to help you unwind, escape and lift up your spirits! Here Milap is delighted to bring to a brand new performance, featuring two leading female artists on the Indian classical music, Leading sitarist Mita Nag and the tabla Maestro Rimpa Siva performing Raag ‘Bhimpalasi’. This is a Live Studio recording from ’On Air Theater’ in Kolkata. Mita Nag, daughter of veteran satirist, Pandit Manilal Nag and grand daughter of Sangeet Acharya (a master musician) Gokul Nag, belongs to the Vishnupur Gharana of Bengal, a school of music nearly 300 years old. In terms of lineage, Mita is the sixth generation sitar player in her family, the tradition having begun with her fore fathers. It was with her grandfather Gokul Nag, who had become the Guru of a noted zamindar (feudal lord) family of Uttarpara, a Northern suburb town of Kolkata, that the mus