There is no easy way to describe the huge void left by her passing, but one is reminded of what the screenwriter-poet Javed Akhtar said about Lata ji in Nasreen Munni Kabir’s book, Lata Mangeshkar… in her own voice. “If you take all the fragrance, all the moonlight, all the honey in the universe and put them together, you would still not create a voice like hers.”