Zila Khan and Malvika Singh

Let it not be said that we suffer from a dearth of music fests. Not one, but two festivals are going to take place, both in Rajasthan, and both fronted by two formidable cultural czarinas. The first is the Ranthambore Festival, whose creative director, Zila Khan’s opening gambit of ‘Adaab Bibi Jaan,’ is virtually irresistible, is being presented by the Puqaar Foundation, and is ‘a not-for-profit effort in music and nature conservation’.