About the Book: The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan
A Compulsively Readable Book About One of the Greatest Icons of Hindutani
Classical Music—indeed, of India..
Everyone knows Vilayat Khan but no one knows Vilayat Khan.
Meditative and playful, generous and ruthless, he was many things to many
people. He broke hearts and he broke rules. He tinkered as furiously with his
car as he did with his instrument, which he transformed technically to create
the new sitar standard. And always there was the music, at the centre of his
being, protected and unharmed—music that contained the sound of 'fairies
dancing, elephants walking. Vilayat Khan saw music. He was