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{{Short description|Indian classical vocalist, journalist, and consumer rights activist}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Sakuntala Narasimhan
| image = Sakuntala at Drishya Kalika Kendra.jpg
| caption = Sakuntala conducting an introductory session on consumer rights to the stewards of an [[UNDEF]] project
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|12|30|df=y}}
| genre = [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani classical]], [[Carnatic music]]
| occupation = Singer, Journalist, Consumer rights activist
| years_active = 1950s–present
}}

'''Sakuntala Narasimhan''' (born 30 December 1939) is an Indian journalist, consumer rights activist,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiatogether.org/consumer-laws|title=India Together: A raw deal for consumers - 17 June 2013|website=www.indiatogether.org}}</ref> and classical vocalist from the [[Rampur-Sahaswan gharana]] of [[Hindustani classical music]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sakuntala-narasimhan/1417247300|title=Sakuntala Narasimhan on Apple Music|website=Apple Music}}</ref> She was a disciple of [[Hafeez Ahmed Khan]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/a-complete-musician/article5780623.ece|title=A complete musician|first=Sakuntala|last=Narasimhan|newspaper=The Hindu|date=13 March 2014|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref> and is the only vocalist in India to have performed in the National Programme of Music organized by [[Doordarshan]] and [[All India Radio]] in both Carnatic and Hindustani styles. She was trained in Carnatic classical music by vocalists [[Musiri Subramania Iyer]] and [[T. Brinda|Thanjavur Brinda]]. She is also the only artiste doing a “self-jugalbandi” juxtaposing the two styles.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/a-confluence-of-two-streams/article31899294.ece|title=A confluence of two streams|first=Sakuntala|last=Narasimhan|newspaper=The Hindu|date=23 June 2020|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Sakuntala holds a MA degree in Economics and postgraduate degrees in classical music. She has two doctorates – one in women's studies and another in musicology. She lived in Delhi during 1947 when India became independent,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/tricolour-on-my-mini-sari/article19471503.ece|title=Tricolour on my mini sari|first=Sakuntala|last=Narasimhan|newspaper=The Hindu|date=12 August 2017|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref> then moved to Mumbai and currently lives in Bengaluru. Her doctoral thesis in musicology was on a comparative study of the Carnatic and Hindustani styles. Sakuntala started performing at an early age for All India Radio and has been a performing artist for the past 60 years for [[SPIC MACAY]] and several other organizers.

==Career==
As a journalist, Sakuntala worked for 7 years with ''[[The Times of India]]'' group at Mumbai. She reported on the [[World Conference on Women, 1995|U.N. Global Conference on Women in China]], for the [[Deccan Herald]] in 1995, and on the 23rd UN General Assembly session at New York in 2000. She was also one of four Indian journalists selected to attend and write about the [[Earth Summit 2002|World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa]] in 2002. Her columns ran in the Deccan Herald for 27 years till 2009 and she currently writes for ''[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thewire.in/author/sakuntala-narasimhan|title=Sakuntala Narasimhan : Exclusive News Stories by Sakuntala Narasimhan on Current Affairs, Events at The Wire|website=The Wire}}</ref> ''Citizen Matters'',<ref>{{cite web|author=About Sakuntala Narasimhan |url=https://bengaluru.citizenmatters.in/author/sakuntalanarasimhan |title=Sakuntala Narasimhan Citizen Matters, Bengaluru |publisher=Bengaluru.citizenmatters.in |date= |accessdate=28 April 2021}}</ref> and ''[[Moneylife]]''.

Sakuntala taught music at the [[Bombay University]] and has taught journalism, women's studies, and economics at the [[Bangalore University]] at the postgraduate level. She has also taught in the United States on a [[Fulbright fellowship]]. She has presented papers at international conferences on media, music and feminist studies, in the United States, Britain, Norway, Pakistan, Kenya, Uganda, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Australia.

==Awards==
*AIR awards in Thumri and Khayal in 1957 and 1958
*5 Gyan Samaj Music Academy Awards, Madras in 1980s
*[[Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons]] in 1983
*‘Journalism for Human Rights’ Award by [[People's Union for Civil Liberties]] in 2000<ref>http://puclkarnataka.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/know_pucl.pdf</ref>
*[[Rajyotsava Awards (2016)|Karnataka Rajyotsava Awards in 2016]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/61-chosen-for-Rajyotsava-award/article15878372.ece|title=61 chosen for Rajyotsava award|newspaper=The Hindu|date=31 October 2016|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref>

==Works==
She has published around 4,000 articles for various news outlets and journals and authored 11 books, on consumer rights, music and feminist issues. Her writings have been translated into Russian, German, Swedish, Japanese, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu. Below are some of her selected writings and books:
* ''Sakuntala Narasimhan'', '''Born unfree: a selection of articles on practices and policies affecting women in India'''. ''NMKRV, First Grade College for Women, 1989.''
* ''Sakuntala Narasimhan'', '''Sati: Widow Burning in India'''. ''HarperCollins India, 1998. {{ISBN|81-722-3292-6}}. ''
* ''Sakuntala Narasimhan'', '''Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Romantic Rebel'''. ''New Dawn Books, 1999. {{ISBN|81-207-2120-9}}. ''
* ''Sakuntala Narasimhan'', '''Empowering Women: An Alternative Strategy from Rural India'''. ''SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 1999. {{ISBN|07-619-9340-1}}. ''
* ''Sakuntala Narasimhan'', '''The splendour of Rampur-sahaswan gharana of Hindustani music, its evolution, history, characteristics and compositions'''. ''Veenapani Centre for Arts, 2006.''
* {{cite journal | title=Affirmative Action: Cross-Commonalities in the Backlash |journal = Economic and Political Weekly|volume = 42|issue = 16|pages = 1414–1416|jstor = 4419489|last1 = Narasimhan|first1 = Sakuntala|year = 2007}}

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n99007583/ WorldCat]
*[https://www.epw.in/author/sakuntala-narasimhan The Economic and Political Weekly]

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