Often hailed as India’s biggest cultural and musical export, Raghu Dixit has released a new album in time for taking the stage at the Cambridge Folk Festival – but the album very nearly didn’t get made. The new album is titled Shakkar, which translates into English as ‘sugar’, and is subtitled ‘Songs about Staying Alive When You Don’t Want To’, which the star admits is a “quite lengthy” hashtag. Raghu, a singer, producer, film score composer and leader of The Raghu Dixit Project, is no stranger to the UK’s big stages, having done Glastonbury (they were the first Indian band to play the John Pe…