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The 麻豆官网首页入口 Proms 2023 celebrates the legendary Lata Mangeshkar this weekend with a special concert in collaboration with Asian Network. Simon Zagorski-Thomas and guests explore how the songs of Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar reflect Indian culture and society

Where do musical ideas come from? What else, aside from imagination, shapes the way music evolves? In How the World Changed Music, Simon Zagorski-Thomas and guests explore the ways in which social, economic and cultural forces have affected musical traditions around the world.

In Wada Na Tod (don鈥檛 break your promise) sung by Lata Mangeshkar, Sanjay Srivastava from the Institute of Economic Growth at Delhi University, helps to explain how this iconic playback singer of the Bollywood silver screen was instrumental in changing perceptions of womanhood in India and in doing so forged a more unified sense of nationhood.

Producer: Rami Tzabar

(Photo: Lata Mangeshkar during the Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Award 2017, in Mumbai. Credit: Milind Shelte/The India Today Group/Getty Images)