• “I want Udaipur World Music Festival to be a complete experience for my audience,” says Sanjeev. Ambrai Ghat, the backdrop for the morning venue, is then designed to lull musicians into tranquillity, with its yellow-and-white gotakiyas (diwan sofas) facing the artists and the lake guarded by the Sisarma valley. “The artistes are also selected accordingly, so that the music and the ambience support each other in this journey,” he says.
  • In the afternoon, the venue shifts to the iconic Fateh Sagar Pal, an artificial lake constructed in the late 17th Century, home to the Udaipur Solar Observatory. The shades have mutated from meditative yellows to languid blues: the stage as well as the seats have a touch of teal. “Afternoons and early evenings are generally romantic, so the music should also have a free flow to it.”
  • The nights, of course, are for dancing, and so the venue has to be a stadium — in this case, Gandhi Ground, to accommodate more people without a security hassle.