For a 21st century gizmo-toting, Facebooking bard, travelling through time zones across continents also implies flying through musical zones. Arriving in Mumbai after a musical sojourn in the hinterland of Kathiawad, Gujarat, I change flights, the histrionics, High-strung tremolos of the evening’s folk Daira dissolved in buzz in the buzz of the Boeing engine. In transit at a Middle Eastern airport, the charms of Lebanese diva Fairuz’s ethereal voice refreshes my senses at a music store.

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Then, as I gaze out of the aircraft window at the starless stratosphere above while others sleep, Ustad Amir Khan’s Tarana in the nocturnal Raga Chandrakauns envelopes my mind as if unraveling the eternal enigma of the night. As I land in Dublin, the vibrant Irish capital, a never-ending concerto of Celtic music and dance bathes my consciousness with a million colours! From the sleepy town of Palitana to the swank symphony of skirts and stockings against red-brick Georgian architecture, 24 hours seems like eons of synergised synchronicity!