‘Suno Kangana’ - Music Around the Farmers Protests Punjab’s singers go viral
Every people’s movement is known to have its off shoots. The same is true with the present farmers’ agitation at the door steps of Delhi. It is reflected in the songs and the videos that are being dished out by mainstream Punjabi singers over the last few days. These songs are celebrating India’s plurality; Punjab’s constant striving for federal rights, its martial traditions and above all its youth.
Punjabi popular music has made long strides over the last few decades and has often drawn brickbats over the way some singers have promoted the culture of drugs, guns, wine and treating women as commodities. But the songs coming out from the Punjabi music industry in the last three weeks have been a class apart. They are reverberating at the protest sites all over the state as well as outside Delhi. Their online popularity can be gauged from the fact that their viewership is running into mill