DIRECTOR ' S NOTE
Director, Strategy and Planning Ajay Prabhakar
Director, Business Development Pragash VM
Director, Marketing & Operations Sneha Ramesh
Editorial Advisor Nikila Srinivasan
Creative Director George Vedamanickam
Creative Designer Manasi Doshi
Content Contributors Sumit Suvarna Aditi Sarawagi Sriram Ravishankar Shreya Bose Amogh Rao Souvik Chakraborty
Recently, accomplished musician Sona Mohapatra slammed Mood Indigo, the annual festival organized by IIT Bombay, for their ' blatant sexism '. Her facebook Post described how the organizers contacted her multiple times with an invitation to perform at the festival but with the stipulation that she MUST collaborate with a Male artist for any show at Mood Indigo. Backing up her claim, Sona posted pictures from the various campaigns of Mood Indigo that seem to play out this narrative
Not backing down, the organizing team hit right back with their counter claim that Sona was making wild allegations and that Mood Indigo has hosted many solo female performers at various previous events. They went on to state that they could not afford Sona Mahopatra, and that she was expensive. The battle lines were drawn, and there were social media support for either side and who knew IIT students could also excel at trolling?
Sona could have very easily tipped the balance to her favour by showing some sort of correspondence from the organizing team with pertinent details but she either wouldn’ t or couldn ' t. Our theory is that Sona probably isn ' t the first artist to not receive a formal proposal and nor will she be the last. Sona’ s outburst has definitely cast aspersions on mood indigo’ s motivation and the organizing team will now have to work extra hard to mitigate any perceivable tinge of sexism.
This event only proves that the world is certainly becoming a more transparent, less politically correct and more sensitive. All things considered, we look forward to 2017 breaking new boundaries with the human race entering uncharted waters!
And speaking of 2017, a very Happy New Year to all of you! Musically yours,
PRAGASH VM
Director- Business Development
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