“The group is a daring meeting of different cultures because we mix various influences at a time when there is a need for people to become one,” says Joshua, about the band that he started 12 years ago. If the Indianness of their songs is well defined, the contemporary twist is also inescapable. All their pieces are based on ragas and even as the tabla blends with the sitar, the electronica loop of the keys and the groovy bass complete the structure of their music. “Our music is strongly characterised by Indian classical tunes but it is also charged with western sounds like jazz and rock,” says Joshua, whose perception of music changed three decades ago when, as a 16-year-old, he heard Pandit Ravi Shankar on a vinyl record, and the teenager soon landed in India to spend a few years learning the instrument.