Young Indian Women Are Rewriting the Bass Line in Music
A new generation of Indian women is moving decisively into the bass guitar, a role long overshadowed by lead instruments in the country’s live and recorded music scenes. Inspired by trailblazers such as Mohini Dey, Nilanjana Ghosh Dastidar and Shalini Mohan, these musicians are expanding the instrument’s visibility and challenging old assumptions about who belongs at the centre of a band’s rhythm section.
