If you start watching a video on musician Krishna Marathe's YouTube channel, you really don't know what to expect looking at the set-up. Marathe, dressed in a formal coat, her hair spiked up, sits on a chair with her electric guitar in hand. Next to her sits a flute player. And then she opens her mouth, and the sweetest voice sings Narayan Hari Om, or Dakshinamurti Stotra, both of which are Sanskrit religious hymns.

Marathe, who was once heavily into rock music, was introduced to these Indian chants 10 years ago, when she was associated with a popular religious organisation. "I have been learning music from the age of three, and my mother was some sort of a Sanskrit expert, who has been learning classical music. So I grew up in that environment, but later, was reintroduced to that music when I went for events at this religious organisation," says the Mumbai girl, who has now settled in Benagluru.