Ruchira Panda carries with her vocals, the heritage of the 1000-year-old Kotali Gharana, a style of Indian classical music native to East India, especially Bengal. In a world more engrossed in the fast and the furious, she has been spreading the purest form of this eclectic music. The lineage of Pandit Manas Chakraborty and Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty continues with her, as we experience her supreme artistry either onstage at the major music festivals in India and abroad or at the teaching podiums of Ali Akbar College of Music, San Rafael; Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London; and Departments of World Music at various Universities in the USA. Saanjh is a classic representation of her approach to music, where melody, artistry, and aesthetics merge in vibrant shades of micro-notes (Shrutis), glides (Meend) and breathtaking Taans ( rapid transitions between notes ).