Anoushka Shankar - In Her Name

Music by Anoushka Shankar
Poem by Nikita Gill
Dance Performance & Choreography by Mythili Prakash
Sculptures by Shilo Shiv Suleyman

Anoushka Shankar: sitar, spoken word
Pirashanna Theverajah: mridangam
Tom Farmer: bass
Produced by Julian Hepple & Anoushka Shankar
Engineered by John Duckett
Mixed & mastered by Julian Hepple
Executive Producer: Saloni Thakkar
Released on LEITER

Video Director: Gui Sussekind Bailey
Executive Producers: Felix Grimm, Nils Frahm
Cinematography: Gui Sussekind Bailey, Brian Hashimoto, Ben Holman
Editors: Francisco Camacho, Anoushka Shankar, Mythili Prakash
Colour: Aline Biz
Set Designer: Ralph Whitehead
Makeup Artist: Chess Thornton
Hair: Sarah Scott
Credits: Torsten Posselt

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[fugithegreat]

You can truly feel the desperate, unhinged rage in the sitar and dance. What a brilliant performance!

[karuna]

may our fury be always fueled by compassion and never by hatred! may all women and all beings be free from suffering!

[doriangrayapologist]

didn’t know someone could shred on a sitar until today. wonderful performance

[libinthathappilly]

IN HER NAME

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 wildfire, in her name
♥

[sori]

Absolute chills. “let us collect as sisters in mourning” so so powerful.

[Labyrinthine_Complexities]

This took me by surprise. I'm in tears. So overwhelmed. Power to the Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Goddess, Gaia, the Divine Feminine ✨ 💖

[ojasiwini]

"What do you call the ashes of a girl, if not sacred" soooo powerful!

[irelandbarrick]

I have no idea how I stumbled upon this, but this is the best thing I've witnessed in a very long time. So blessed to have this piece here.

[Vision_Voyagers]

Best 6 minutes of my day.
and What a wonder full message, "Time can not devour, what WE will not allow to be forgotten."

[vishchess]

Wow, this is some elite music, I am in the music realm for around 9 years and I forgot music can be this pure and powerful

[ParadoxicalSerenity]

Sitar is the magical Indian instrument! Her father and her both are excellent in playing it. God tier infact

[PreetiSharma-pyyo]

You express our rage through your Sitar Anoushka. Simply Brilliant!

[adityachak]

I can feel the rage.. the love the pain.. in the melodies of the sitar.. truly brilliant

[soumyakantipal]

Such a blessing it was to hear this piece live in Mumbai.

[ChaosGummyBears]

She is so right about anger especially in politics. I love this perspective of making it holy because so many times we can get wrapped up in our anger and our own righteousness that it becomes self destructive. This video reminds me to be safe when using anger as a tool, embody justice not war.

[BernardoPatino]

This was so good... It reminded me of all the young women lost to femicides here in Mexico... Wish we could still do community captions because this needs Spanish subtitles!!

[lidu]

So powerful. I hope this prayer reaches many women around the globe.

[shubhashrichoudhury]

Thank you to each and everyone who has participated in creating this masterpiece. We need all of us to come together to help us rise together. A world where any being is tormented we all face the loss and the consequences together. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks a lot❤

[WicCaesar]

Do not forget her name: JYOTI SINGH PANDEY. Do not forget her name: MAHSA AMINI. Power to women against religion, oppression, discrimination, and negligence. Power to women of the world!

[fluffycloud]

Feminine fury, encase me with your flame. And burn the one, burn the one to blame. - Lukyan

This is a work of art and I will heed to its call. Thank you