Twinning music, art, literature, play, joy, love and life – that is how Vedi Sinha, a musician with the Aahavan group, grew up, entwined with her twin sister. Their parents being artistically inclined, her home environment and childhood were immersed in music, arts and literature. However, Vedi’s was meant to be an expansive journey, transcending the known and the settled. It was meant to be a new realm of art and life uniquely her own.

Vedi grew up intimately attached to both her siblings – her twin sister and their elder sister. With her twin, though, she felt a deep emotional anchorage, even dependence. It wasn’t until her late teens, when a long trail of traumatic events started rocking Vedi’s life, that she began searching for strength within – her own strength, separate from and independent of her twin. The distressing rupture of a close relationship, breach of trust, unfair and exploitative treatment by the affiliate group, setbacks and abuse at workplace – a dense, stormy gush engulfed Vedi at the threshold of young adulthood, which is anyway a tough transition phase for most people. Dilemmas, self-doubts, shame, guilt and an invisible load of trauma – anyone would stumble and crumble. Not...

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