Last weekend I flew out to Phoenix to play at Darpan Festival, the yearly festival of Phoenix Gharana. Sometimes, as a non-desi person who plays Indian classical music on an instrument so closely associated with Western classical music, I wonder if I’m being included in a program purely for my exotic factor. It’s not a great feeling. This felt very different than that. I was actually one of two non-desi, American musicians to be featured, the other being sarodiya Brandon M