India, Nov. 10 -- Veteran playback singer and actor Sulakshana Pandit passed away at 71 on Thursday following a heart attack. Remembering her aunt, singer Shweta Pandit shares that she "didn't get her due credit from the industry," as she never received the recognition she truly deserved. "I genuinely feel she didn't get her due credit from the industry. She was immensely talented - both as a singer and as an actor. But she was too sensitive and honest for the business. When I was young, she once told me, 'I'm a very sensitive person. Maybe not strategic enough, like the others, for this field,'" Shweta recalls.

"She was an intelligent woman, but not someone who could play politics or network her way up. That was never her nature. And at...