12 Facts About Sakuntala Narasimhan

Sakuntala Narasimhan was born on 30 December 1939 and is an Indian journalist, consumer rights activist, and classical vocalist from the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana of Hindustani classical music.

Sakuntala Narasimhan was a disciple of Hafeez Ahmed Khan and is the only vocalist in India to have performed in the National Programme of Music organized by Doordarshan and All India Radio in both Carnatic and Hindustani styles.

Sakuntala Narasimhan was trained in Carnatic classical music by vocalists Musiri Subramania Iyer and Thanjavur Brinda.

Sakuntala Narasimhan lived in Delhi during 1947 when India became independent, around the time of partition of India, then moved to Mumbai and currently lives in Bengaluru.

Sakuntala Narasimhan started performing at an early age for All India Radio and has been a performing artist for the past 60 years for SPIC MACAY and several other organizers.

Sakuntala Narasimhan was one of four Indian journalists selected to attend and write about the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa in 2002.

Sakuntala Narasimhan's columns ran in the Deccan Herald for 27 years until 2009 and she currently writes for The Wire, Citizen Matters, and Moneylife.

Sakuntala Narasimhan taught music at the Bombay University and has taught journalism, women's studies, and economics at the Bangalore University at the postgraduate level.

Sakuntala Narasimhan has taught in the United States on a Fulbright fellowship.

Sakuntala Narasimhan has presented papers at international conferences on media, music and feminist studies, in the United States, Britain, Norway, Pakistan, Kenya, Uganda, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Australia.

Sakuntala Narasimhan has published around 4,000 articles for various news outlets and journals and authored 11 books, on consumer rights, music and feminist issues.

Sakuntala Narasimhan's writings have been translated into Russian, German, Swedish, Japanese, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu.