Muzzle the Artist
We need to speak up for Kamra not because he is a headliner. We need to speak up because there are Kunals among the marginalised who are hit by the legitimation of reactionary brutality.
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Let Me Make an Admission: I’m Privileged, Therefore I Am
The benefits that accrue from the accident of my birth in an upper caste household are emotional, psychological, social, and economic.
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Proclamations of Hate in India’s Temples
Disallowing non-Hindus from performing in temples is a sign of failing to understand all that the temple space represents.
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Culture After Covid: Artists Cannot Be Tone Deaf in the Face of the Real World
Where are the modern compositions which speak of today? Even as I write, dead bodies have been found floating on the Ganga. My response to it cannot always be Tulsidas or Kabir.
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Thought-Controllers are Making Us Hate Our Democratic, Plural Past
‘Hate comes from all directions and we are sucked into its whorl’: the musician writes an open letter to his fellow citizens.
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S.P. Balasubrahmanyam: Beyond the Self
In SPB’s voice, we found every social, cultural and aesthetic possibility. This allowed every individual, irrespective of their socio-political location, to find himself/herself within his voice at one time or another.
