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Making art is like a visceral churning, a painful twist of the heart sometimes and a frantic pull of the brain in directions unknown until the work is rendered complete. Women artists have had it tough, even when the world wasn’t hit by a global pandemic. Right from disparity in fees to the kind of emotionally violent trolling they face online, women artists continue to fight all kinds of gender inequalities. And this year, the Indian indie music scene witnessed a remarkable number of releases by women from across the country, extraordinary because 2020 was just 100x complicated. Here’s my list of favourites out this year.