Ronid Akhu Chingangbam, Moushumi Bhowmik and Bhanuj Kappal

Kappal who is a music journalist adds that he has hosted a couple of podcasts earlier. How did the team come up with the idea for this one though? “It was founded as a subset of a separate larger project which did not materialise. By that time, we were already in touch with prominent names in music and activism; so we started thinking of something that can be made accessible for the audiences despite the pandemic-induced restrictions. A podcast was the best way to go about it,” Kappal explains. About the experience of chatting up Chingangbam, Tenma and Damodaran, he adds, “I have spoken to Akhu and Tenma previously. Although they both emerged in the indie music space, both of them come from different worlds. They have interesting opinions on music. I spoke to Damodaran a couple of times before the podcast, and I was not only impressed by the length and breadth of her knowledge but also her calm manner of narrating stories.”

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