Geetanjali Krishna: The age of the devotional deejay

At the dawn of this brand new age of the devotional deejay, I mused that I urgently needed to invest in some noise-cancelling headphones

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It was barely noon when my ears were assailed by the heavy bass of commercial speakers. The percussive beats hit my head in waves and I wondered, for the umpteenth time, why people enjoyed decibels more than music itself. One incomprehensible song after another played out as I rummaged in the bedside drawer for some headache pills. Eventually, I figured out this was no disco — the speakers were placed in a truck outside the Durga Puja pandal (tent) and were belting out Devi bhajans set to Bollywood beats. It was the last day of Durga Puja and a crowd had gathered to take the idol for ...

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Geetanjali Krishna: The age of the devotional deejay