I cannot say when I met Maa for the first time that I knew her age. She never looked her age. An aura of her rich dreams was hiding her physical appearance. She too seemed not knowing her age. Through friends she had known me before I met her first. When met, she asked, "what about doing jhalsa?" It did not strike to me at first what she had meant by jhalsa. I had watched jhalsa ghar, a film by Satyajith Ray. Then it occurred to me that she might be intending to say something about music because jhalsa ghar meant music room. I replied shyly, "later..." She accepted my reply heartily with a gracious smile. Within a few weeks we grew closer and I began to visit her quite often. She was curious about Karnatic music, and later she expressed her desire to learn music from me. Then Yakoob, her son in law, said, "you are honoured by her discipleship." I went to her place thrice in a week. She had a strong voice, quite similar to the voice of Ganguba