The Hindu Fridays

My boss asked if I was into music, and then whether I could run this: events where music lovers are part of the experience and not spectators. I said yes without hesitating: I'd been going to metal gigs in Chennai looking for exactly that. At the first one, 50 invited guests, The Hindu's subscribers among them, picked a topic and suggested words; Madhan Karky made a poem from them and Sikkil Gurucharan made a song, on the spot. Sikkil's Gopuccha Yati and Srotovaha Yati reminded me of metric modulation, a technique commonly used by metal legends like Dream Theater and Meshuggah. The Hindu Fridays ran for about a year and a half and put on three events. There are no events now, and the playlist is still up.