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Akhil Sood

Akhil Sood

Musician and writer

Akhil Sood is a freelance writer used to setting six to eight alarms a day.

By Akhil Sood

An ode to joy: Why ‘Dancing Uncle’ is such a ray of hope

With his delightful Govinda redux, Sanjeev Srivastava highlights life’s essence — enjoy yourself. It’s not that hard!

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(Don't) enjoy yourself – Banning taped music in Delhi restro-bars is just wicked

Why should bars play great recorded numbers? After all, they're not places for fun. Let's get maudlin 'live' music instead.

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Why cheating sports icons hurt fans so much

But asking for Steve Smith's head on a tandoori platter is an overreaction to an act that isn’t all that terrible.

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Danger at gigs: A musician's dispatch after the Las Vegas mass shooting

The second that real-world concerns enter the equation, the bubble bursts.

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Indians will hate tomato ketchup after reading this piece

Sometimes the ketchup itself tells you to take it easy, refusing to exit the bottle. But no.

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Linkin Park singer's death is another reminder that behind great art can lie greater suffering

Chester Bennington died, aged 41, a suspected suicide.

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20 years on, Radiohead's OK Computer looped soundtrack to millennial life

It's a futuristic, glum, comic, apocalyptic satire on modern existence. Today, that state of being has only amplified.

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An Indian fan on hearing Chris Cornell, singer of Audioslave and Soundgarden, is dead

He may have been 'ours', but he belonged to no one.

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Justin Bieber is coming to India - but you have no reason to hate

The Rs 77,000 ticket (with a Rs 210 discount) is a special package deal with a backstage tour and a bunch of other frills.

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Politics and farce of Grammys (oh, and Anoushka Shankar is nominated)

The label 'world music' seems to impose a distant cultural inferiority to certain forms of music.

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