Protest Music

Dalit shahirs of Maharashtra: Nagorao Patankar's quest to reclaim history

The lyrics of a song that Nagorao Patankar performed in 1935 before BR Ambedkar went: "Dalito Ki Tawarikh/ Mulk Hindostan Se Pucho (The history of Dalits/ Ask the country called Hindostan)"

As Childish Gambino's 'This is America' breaks the internet, a playlist of protest music from the Indian subcontinent

In the wake of Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’, we take a look at what Indian Ocean's Rahul Ram would call “educated middle class protest music”

Songs of freedom: Jailed for 4 years, Kabir Kala Manch members are now ready with new music

Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor, members of the Kabir Kala Manch, who were arrested by the ATS for their alleged connection with Naxals, were granted bail by the Supreme Court after four years in jail. They are now ready to get back to the streets with their new songs.

Why Bob Dylan, chronicler of the times, deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature

Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 may have disappointed the Murakami fans again, but the victory is by every measure well-deserved. For Dylan is a poet, a musician, a writer and an artist; a man with a Midas touch that makes him one of the best-selling artists of all-time

On the album Hopelessness, songstress Anohni wields her voice like a weapon

The songs on Anohni's Hopelessness are anything but hopeless. They’re angry, they’re considered, and they’re haunting and sometimes gorgeous.

Protest Music in India: Talk by Indian Ocean member

15 June, 6.30 pm at Annexe Building, Max Muller Marg.