Express News Service
BENGALURU: The video starts with a trigger warning. Rightly so, because the disturbing visuals and the poignant rap that follow in the composition Second Wave, are a powerful mirror that rapper Hanumankind holds up to the situation many of us are going through due to Covid-19.
The 2 minute- 16 second video – viewed over three lakh times – shows mass funerals, patients desperately waiting for beds, and grieving and traumatised caregivers. It also features election rallies and religious gatherings that took place just before the onset of the deadly second wave.
Sooraj Cherukat a.k.a Hanumankind uploaded the composition on his Instagram page on May 1, and it’s a testimony to how serious things are, that the situation has remained largely unchanged in the three weeks since. “This was my way of expressing how I feel. I’ve heard of the struggles from those in my close circle. So I can’t imagine what the general public must be feeling,” says the Benga