Ashok Hinduja supports A R Rahman scholarship at a music college in America

There's good news for Indian students of music, aspiring for a spot at the Berklee College of Music in America. Industrialist Ashok Hinduja is supporting a scholarship at the music school, to be awarded to an Indian student every year, starting next admission cycle (to join the 2016 undergraduate class).

The scholarship will be christened in the name of India's most well-known musical export, A R Rahman. It will be jointly announced by Roger H Brown, president, Berklee College of Music and Rahman in Chennai on Friday, followed by a reception at the Hinduja residence on Sunday attended by the likes of Shankar Mahadevan, Farhan Akhtar, Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Shivkumar Sharma.

"While we're in India, we're networking via one-on-one meetings and the reception at the Hinduja home is to establish relationships with other artists," said a spokesperson of Berklee College of Music. It isn't the first time that the youngest Hinduja brother, Ashok (or AP as he is popularly known) is donning the patron of arts cap. This once, he may have been inspired by his daughter Satya, a music composer and DJ.