One of Tara Rajendran's earliest memories is watching her mother playing music from their big old radio to her dying grandmother, and how hearing those songs brought them both some peace.

As a medical student, Tara also happened to read the book which won the Pulitzer of 2011, ‘The Emperor of All Maladies - A Story of Cancer’. These two events significantly influenced and inspired Tara to spend more time rotating in Oncology departments in India and the United States.

In this episode, Tara shares her journey to combine her 2 passions of music and cancer research, and to become the first physician-musician to launch an impactful sparking cross-disciplinary lecture-concert series advocating the significance of using a traditional Indian instrument called the ‘Veena’ for palliative medicine/oncology.