The Rohida Conversations engages with conversations on music, culture, and society.This bi-weekly podcast will be in three languages: English, Hindi, and Rajasthani. Starting from March 28th, 2025, a new episode will be released every second Friday. You can tune in for the podcast on Spotify or Youtube. Stay tuned!

The Rohida Conversations engages with conversations on music, culture, and society. This bi-weekly podcast will be in three languages: English, Hindi, and Rajasthani. Starting from March 28th, 2025, a new episode will be released every second Friday. You can tune in for the podcast on Spotify or Youtube. Stay tuned!

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The Rohida Conversations engages with conversations on music, culture, and society.The role of Music as a symbol of love, harmony, and compassion has long been assumed as given without many questions in the public perception. This podcast, however, questions this; not to negate this perception but to engage and see how music, as an active medium of love and harmony, does so. I will also try to understand where else music is being employed in contemporary times. Bhakti, Sufism, and saint poetry are well-admired musical traditions that have long histories of resisting caste hierarchies and religious orthodoxy through values of faith-oriented egalitarianism.In 2016, in Rajasthan, India, a cultural organization called Rajasthan Kabir Yatra, and the Rajasthan State Police Department collaboratively took the initiative to start Project #TanaBana to celebrate these traditions. They organized music festivals at the sites where incidents of communal violence took place, as a placemaking exercise. In this podcast, I study the impact of #music as a #mitigation strategy to counter hate. I speak to various artists, organizers, scholars, journalists, and lawyers to understand the anatomy of #otherization beyond acts of violence and how music can or cannot engage with the deeper issue of otherization. In the process, I interrogate the efficacy of the state and the non-state actors to use music instead of or along with constitutionally guided tools such as education, awareness, accessible policing and justice. Through conversations with artists and organizers, I explore the potential of these traditions in mitigating hate and bringing people together on shared traditions, heritage, and lives. I examine processes such as otherization, social ostracization, and ex-communication that affect inter-mingling and camaraderie among a diverse pool of people. I also explore the people’s faith in the vitality of these traditions, not only as a utopia but also as a community-rooted strategic tool to maintain a harmonious or, at times, working relationship in society. This bi-weekly podcast will be in three languages: English, Hindi, and Rajasthani. Starting from March 28th, 2025, a new episode will be released every second Friday. You can tune in for the podcast on Spotify or Youtube. Stay tuned!Art work Ananta Dutta

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The Rohida Conversations engages with conversations on music, culture, and society. The role of Music as a symbol of love, harmony, and compassion has long been assumed as given without many questions in the public perception. This podcast, however, questions this; not to negate this perception but to engage and see how music, as an active medium of love and harmony, does so. I will also try to understand where else music is being employed in contemporary times. Bhakti, Sufism, and saint poetry are well-admired musical traditions that have long histories of resisting caste hierarchies and religious orthodoxy through values of faith-oriented egalitarianism. In 2016, in Rajasthan, India, a cultural organization called Rajasthan Kabir Yatra, and the Rajasthan State Police Department collaboratively took the initiative to start Project #TanaBana to celebrate these traditions. They organized music festivals at the sites where incidents of communal violence took place, as a placemaking exercise. In this podcast, I study the impact of #music as a #mitigation strategy to counter hate. I speak to various artists, organizers, scholars, journalists, and lawyers to understand the anatomy of #otherization beyond acts of violence and how music can or cannot engage with the deeper issue of otherization. In the process, I interrogate the efficacy of the state and the non-state actors to use music instead of or along with constitutionally guided tools such as education, awareness, accessible policing and justice. Through conversations with artists and organizers, I explore the potential of these traditions in mitigating hate and bringing people together on shared traditions, heritage, and lives. I examine processes such as otherization, social ostracization, and ex-communication that affect inter-mingling and camaraderie among a diverse pool of people. I also explore the people’s faith in the vitality of these traditions, not only as a utopia but also as a community-rooted strategic tool to maintain a harmonious or, at times, working relationship in society. This bi-weekly podcast will be in three languages: English, Hindi, and Rajasthani. Starting from March 28th, 2025, a new episode will be released every second Friday. You can tune in for the podcast on Spotify or Youtube. Stay tuned! Art work Ananta Dutta

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