More than 30 years ago, a musician from Quebec City, Canada, came to Auroville with the aim to live there. Today, his name is Nadaka (he refused to tell us what his birth name was), and for the past four years, he has been developing a guitar to play Indian music.

“You don’t decide that ‘today, I’m gonna build an Indian-style guitar’. Modifying an instrument is all about R&D and the practical application of it, which is still going on,” explains Nadaka, who has performed in India, Europe the US with musicians, including Vikku Vinayakaram, Ganesh-Kumaresh and the Basavaraj brothers.