Jagjit Singh lived in a village called Bhaini Sahib near Ludhiana in Punjab. It could have been any other sleepy village surrounded by wheat fields except that it harboured an amazing secret: every child was taught Hindustani classical music. Regardless of whether they grew up to become farmers, traders or homemakers, music was their second language. They learned how to sing, play the sitar, sarod, tabla and dilruba. They learned compositions about leaves dancing in the rain, and about Krishna and Guru Nanak. They learned how to accompany each other. They learned how to listen.
