An open letter to the sexual predators of the Carnatic music community
We believe that this will make the Carnatic community safer for all
Over the past few days, we have all read many disturbing accounts of sexual harassment, abuse and assault, including from within the Carnatic music community. Many such instances in the past have been brushed under the carpet, subsequently creating a culture of silent complicity. There continues to be a deafening silence that needs to be broken. As artistes and students of music, we believe it is our responsibility to speak up and acknowledge that such unacceptable behaviour must be strongly condemned, in order to create a more equitable and safe environment for all people.
It is important to address this issue and bring to light those who have misused their position and power to exploit those at risk. We ask for due process through civil society investigations into these allegations to hold these individuals accountable, and whole-heartedly welcome those who want to come forward and share their stories. At this juncture, we also encourage and request sabhas and cultural organisations all over the world to recognise this issue and put forward proactive structural measures to address such claims and prevent future incidents. We believe that this will make the Carnatic community safer for all.
Aarathi Bharadwaj
Abhay Anil Kumar
Abhinav Seetharaman
Abhishek Balakrishnan
Abhishek Raghuram
Abhishek Ravishankar
Adarsh Ramchandran
Adhiti Rajesh
Aditya Vempaty
Aishwarya Shankar
Aishwarya Srinivas
Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath
Aisvarya Chandrasekar
Ajay Gopi
Akshay Anantapadmanabhan
Akshay Ravi
Amritha Murali
Anamika Kannan
Anantha R. Krishnan
Ananya Ashok
Anil Narasimha
Anil Srinivasan
Anirudh Athreya V.
Anirudh Venkatesh
Anisha Gururaj
Aparna M. Sridhar
Aparna Thyagarajan
Apoorva Das
Apoorva Rajesh
Aravind Bhargav
Archana Bharadwaj
Archana Venkatesan
Arthi Nadhan
Arthi Suresh
Arun Kumar V.K.
Arun Mahadevan
Arun Ramamurthy
Asha Ramesh
Ashvin Bhogendra
Ashvin Ravi
Ashwath Narayanan
Ashwin Srikant
Ashwinn Balachandran
Athrey Nadhan
Badrinath Govindarajan
Bharath Krishna D.R.
Bharathi Ramasubban
Bhavana Iyer
Bombay Jayashri
Brindha Manickavasagam
Chaitrra Sairam
Chandra Ram
Chandrasekara Sharma G.
Charumathi Raghuraman
Chinmayee Venkatraman
Chitra Lakshumanan
David Claman
Delhi Sairam
Dileep K.J.
Erode Nagaraj
Ganavya Doraiswamy
Gayatri K.
Geeta Shankar
Geetha Iyer
Ghatam S. Karthick
Gopal Ravindhran
Gopalakrishnan K.V.
Gowri Raghunandan
Guhan Venkataraman
Guruprasad N.
Hari Kappiyoor
Hariharan Ravi
Harini Rajashekar
Harsha Nagarajan
Hiranmayee S.
Hrishi Balaji
Hrishikesh Chary
Indhu Naga
Janani Ramesh
Jayanth Balasubramanian
Jayanth J.A.
Jayashree Suresh
Jerry Barr
Jyotsna Sivakumar
K. Bharat Sundar
Kamya Sankar
Karthick Narayanan
Karthik Iyer
Karun Salvady
Kaushik Sridhar
Kavi Srinivasaragavan
Kavya Kodungallur
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Maheetha Bharadwaj
Malini Mahes
Mathangi Sridharan
Medhini Ramesh
Meenakshi Sri Vempaty
Meghana Karra
Murari V.V.S.
Muthu Krishna M.
Mysore Sangeetha Dileep
Mytreyi Shastry Aravind
Nachikethan Srinivasan
Namita Shenoy
Nanditha Ravi
Narayanan Ravishankar
Neha Krishnamachary
Nikita Hariharan
Nisha Rajagopal
Nishanth Chandran
Nishanth Thiagarajan
Nithya Garg
Nyantara Narasimhan
Parameswaran Amit Ranganathan
Prasanna Rajan
Prasanna Venkataraman
Praveen Sparsh
Preetha Narayanaswamy
Prema Rangachary
Priya Darshini
Priyanka Chary
Ragavan Manian
Ragavan Sai
Rajeev M.
Rajeswari Satish
Raksha Mahalinkam
Ramachandran Suresh
Ramakrishnan L.
Ramakrishnan Murthy
Ramana Balachandran
Ramana Indrakumar
Ramesh Abhiraman
Rangashree Varadarajan
Ranjani and Gayatri
Ranjani Sivakumar Siddareddy
Ravi Srinivasan
Ravikiran G.
Ravindra Bharathy Sridharan
Rithu Rajendran
Rithvik Raja
Rohan Krishnamurthy
Rohith Jayaraman
Roopa Shastry M.
Rupa Ramanathan
Rupasri Shankar
Sai Sundar
Saigiridhar K.
Saketharaman S.
Sandeep Narayan
Sandeep Ramachandran
Sangeetha Sivakumar
Sanjeev Raja
Sanjeev V.
Sashwat Mahalingam
Sastry Vedam
Savitha Venkatapathy
Sekar Ganesan
Shakthi Shrima
Shankar Ramachandran
Shantala Subramanyam
Sharada Krishnan
Shashank Subramaniam
Shomik S. Ati
Shreya Devnath
Shreyaa Srinivasan
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Shruthi S. Bhat
Shruthi Subramaniam
Shyamala Ramakrishna
Siddharth Acharya
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Sivaganesh N
Snigdha Venkataramani
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Srinidhi Ramakrishna
Srinidhi Sridharan
Sriram Parthasarathy
Sriranjani Darbha
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Srivathsa Pasumarthi
Srivatsan Balakrishnan
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Subha Sridharan
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Vignesh Ishwar
Vignesh Krishnamurthy
Vignesh Ramanujam
Vignesh Thyagarajan
Vignesh Venkataraman
Vijay M.
Vijay Natesan
Vijay Neelakantan
Vikram Raghavan
Vilasini S.M.
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Vishvak Kumaran
Visveshwar Nagarajan
Vittal Rangan B.
Vivrd Prasanna
Yesh Subramanian