“We get criticised for trying to break conventions,” says Hardial Rai, the founder of ZerOculture, a UK based organisation. “We do that to adapt to new audiences, new aesthetics and new sensibilities,” The website of ZerOclassikal, ZerOculture’s musical arm, terms it an initiative to ‘offer a radical approach to south…
Classical music the world over has always been a niche field. Indian Classical Music, thanks to the geographical stamp, has an even smaller following. Many construe it as rather exclusive and inaccessible to the layperson with its staid and prim and proper image and a perception of rigid rules for…