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Anoushka Shankar I REMEMBER…

A CHILDHOOD SPENT BETWEEN LONDON AND DELHI. Before I was seven, I lived in Willesden Green with my mum and I went to a state school around the corner from our home. I have a lot of memories of spending time in the bank where my mum worked. They were really lovely with her. She used to be able to bring me with her, and they’d all sort of watch me in the back and let me play until she finished work. My parents got married when I was seven, and that’s when my dad moved in with us, and we simultaneously moved in with him in Delhi.

. I was really close to her as a kid but then didn’t get an adulthood with her. She was a really wise and wonderful woman who was an amazing singer. She would visit us in London and I have lots of memories

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