New Delhi, May 25 -- Senior Advocate and BJP national spokesperson Nalin Kohli is grabbing attention online after performing classic and indie rock hits by Pink Floyd, U2 and Queen at a gig in Saket alongside his sister, author Vandana Kohli. "I woke up to a tweet by Gautam Chikermane (author), and the next thing I saw was that the clip had spread everywhere," Kohli says. "Most people said, 'We did not know this side of you.'"

That side, he says, has existed for decades. "Vandana and I have been singing for 45 years, and both of us got training in semi classical music and also Rabindra Sangeet while we were in Kolkata in the 1980s," he says, recalling his college band, Rebels. Music took a backseat as media, legal and political work inte...