India, Aug. 12 -- Onstage, under the pulsing strobes of Antisocial at midnight, she's thick in the middle of her Boiler Room set. That's where I first met Kayan - a multi-genre DJ with the kind of instinct that makes bodies move before minds catch up. A few weeks later, she's in a different city, strutting in heels on a festival stage, singing her lyrics into the night sky, her voice spilling over thousands - and again, she has them moving. Somewhere between those two worlds- between the thump of the club and the ache of a love song - exists the duality that is Kayan. Bottom line is, this girl is going to make you move, one way or the other.

But who is Kayan? Catchy as it may be, the name Kayan, the artist persona of Ambika Nayak, may ne...