“She is typical of the brightest of her generation, turning down an offer from Goldman Sachs after passing out of her MBA from IIM Bangalore to pursue her career in Carnatic music…..she is thinking beyond the individual, of the institution, setting up India’s first multimedia interactive museum of music, the Indian Music Experience at Bangalore.”

“Manasi wears many hats, successfully. She is a mother, an engineer with a degree in Information Science, a management graduate from IIM Bangalore, the project director of India’s first experiential music museum, a TED fellow and above all – a musician.”

“Carnatic classical vocalist Manasi Prasad delighted a packed house with her soulful rendition of a varnam and krithis in an array of ragas”