Who We Are

Human migration and migration of cultural notes with the humans since the dawn of civilizations, and tracing the trails of it in today's world to attain a sense of harmony across the globe, has been the area of involvement for the INDUS BAND FOUNDATION.The journey started by the INDUS BAND, a cross-border two-member Neo-classical band based on the research by its vocalist and musicologist Somali Panda. The research was started by her in 2007, and her Migrating Music took the concrete shape of a band, while the bass player from Bangladesh, MF Hossain joined in 2017.During the crucial corona days migration and migrants came up to the surface level throughout the globe, especially under the aegis of the UN, and so did the Migrating Music. INDUS BAND was invited to perform twice during this time on the UN platforms; and INDUS BAND evolved into INDUS BAND FOUNDATION in 2021, to walk more steadily on the path of Human Migration and its numerous fallouts worldwide.

Our Team

The Indus Band Foundation has a combination of most diversified and heterogeneous people to work as a holistic Team, complimenting each other.

FOUNDER & RESEARCH RESOURCE

Somali Panda

She is an exponent of Indian Classical Vocal Music and also a Neo-Classical Vocalist, Musicologist, Author. She conceptualized Migrating Music.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

MF Hossain

He is a Bass-player, a Musician, a Painter. He performs his poetry as The Poet- the one man band.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Rhik Panda

He is the youngest member of the Foundation infusing new dreams in experimenting with Sound and Music.

OVERSEAS COUNSELOR

Rafael Stemplewski

Born in Poland he studied law at the Jagiellonian University, and started his own film production company in Berlin. He is a director, a versatile artist.