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Kaushiki Desikan
Birth name	Kaushiki Chakrabarty
Origin	India
Genres	Hindustani classical music
Occupations	singer
Years active	1992–present

Kaushiki Desikan (née Chakrabarty) (Bengali: চক্রবর্তী) (born 1980) is a prominent Indian classical vocalist.

Chakraborty was born 1980 in Kolkata, India. She is the daughter of Chandana Chakraborty and the renowned Indian classical singer Ajoy Chakraborty. At age seven, she started learning Indian classical music at the academy of Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, joining later ITC Sangeet Research Academy.

Kaushiki graduated from Calcutta University in 2002 with First Class Honors in Philosophy.

Kaushikii has participated in many major concerts, including the Dover Lane Music Conference, the ITC Sangeet Sammelan in India, the Spring Festival of Music (California), and Parampara Program (Los Angeles).

She is married to Partha Desikan.

[edit] Awards and recognitions

• Jadu Bhatta (1995)
• Outstanding Young Person (2000)
• BBC Award (2005)

[edit] External links

• Kaushiki Chakrabarty at Allmusic
• Kaushiki Chakrabarty at the Internet Movie Database
• Leicester International Music Festival
• Georgia World Congress Center

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