Mistry, one of the few members of the Parsi community to take up Hindustani classical music, was also the co-founder of Swar Sadhna Samiti, a Kalbadevi-based organisation dedicated to the promotion of music through education and cultural programmes.
Office bearers of the Samiti said Mistry died from multiple organ failure. “Mistry was a pioneering woman artiste with a golden personality. She was an authority on the tabla and the pakhawaj, on which she had done a lot of research,” said tabla player Omkar Gulvady, who has played at the Samiti’s annual festivals for the past 25 years.
Mistry wrote three books – Pakhawaj and Tabla: History, Schools and Traditions, Tablé ki bandishein and The Contribution of Parsis to Indian Classical Music.
Published in Hindiustan Times.
