[8] However, as a teenager, she was encouraged by her parents to take up a more stable profession than music, primarily due to the irregular working hours and solo travels involved, making it a difficult career choice for a woman.

He was pursuing a PhD in Hindustani classical music when he met with a fatal road accident in New Delhi on 1 September 1994 at the age of 27.

Meeta gave her first performance on stage at the age of 9, during a 3-day music festival ‘Prasang’ organized for the 75th birthday celebrations of her grandfather, Pt.

[21][22] In 2005, the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and Prasar Bharati made a film titled – "Meeta: Linking a Tradition with Today” – which documents her life and growth as a singer.

[23] In 2008, Meeta presented a music appreciation series called "Swar Shringar" on World Space Satellite Radio.

[25] From 2009, she worked as a consultant with Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, a premier government-funded arts organization in India for the documentation of the series 'Masters of Hindustani Classical Music', involved in a project archiving more than 60 living maestros representing different genres and gharanas of Hindustani Classical music.

She has also been actively coaching budding singers from India and abroad in her attempt to spread Indian Classical Music globally.