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COVID-19 Chronicles: Music and Politics Under Lockdown

Roger Waters and Brian Eno, two of the most influential musicians of their time, in conversation for the first time discussing music and politics under lockdown.

The Casteless Collective: Musicalising Anti-Caste Conscience

Authors

Yogesh Maitreya

A cursory glance at these videos testifies to this: these new songs and albums share with Bollywood a slick production style, a totally apolitical approach, lethargically romantic lyrics and also their lyrics.

The Casteless Collective: Musicalising Anti-Caste Conscience

Authors

Yogesh Maitreya

In the name of Bollywood songs and indie-pop, the dalit-bahujan listeners have been fed with ideas and tastes of the anti-dalit/bahujan imagination of brahmanism.

Dalit Women as Active Participants in Ambedkarite Movement

Authors

Yogesh Maitreya

In Dalit Women’s Songs, Ambedkar is a Staunchly Feminist Ideal

Part Two: Two Journeys through the History of Hindustani Music

Ashwini Deshpande in conversation with Saba Dewan and Namita Devidayal

Literature and Struggle: Folk Literature

In this episode, we will listen to a part of Krishna Chander's story Kalu Bhangi, a composition by Sahir Ludhianvi which was later adopted as a song in the film Pyaasa and a song written by Vamik Jaunpuri for Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's movie Dharti ke Laal.

Why Songs Are Sabotaged: Dalits and their Music

Authors

Yogesh Maitreya

Socially-conscious musicians from oppressed communities face targeted violence, especially if they garner mass appeal.

Revolutionary Rhythms: How Art Can Change the World

Laal had been at the forefront of taking revolutionary music to masses in Pakistan.

Mozart’s Sonata and Why Music Could Help Epilepsy Patients

Authors

Sandipan Talukdar

A study found that Mozart’s Sonata, composed when he was 25, is a composition that can reduce the frequency of epileptic seizures, if heard for long periods on a daily basis.

Madhosh Balhami: The Poet of Perseverance

On 15 March 2018, Kashmiri poet Ghulam Mohammad Bhat (Madhosh Balhami), lost his ancestral house and thirty years of poetry to a fire that broke out during a gun battle between Indian soldiers and rebels.

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