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.
Yours in solidarity:
Aarathi Bharadwaj
Abhay Anil Kumar
Abhinav Seetharaman
Abhishek Balakrishnan
Abhishek Raghuram
Abhishek Ravishankar
Abinaya Shenbagaraj
Achyuth Sharma
Adarsh Ramchandran
Adhiti Rajesh
Aditya Vempaty
Aishwarya Shankar
Aishwarya Srinivas
Aishwarya Venkataraman
Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath
Aisvarya Chandrasekar
Ajay Gopi
Ajay Ravichandran
Akshay Anantapadmanabhan
Akshay Ravi
Akshay Venkatesan
Amritha Murali
Anamika Kannan
Anantha R. Krishnan
Ananya Ashok
Ananya Vajpeyi
Anil Narasimha
Anil Srinivasan
Anirudh Athreya V.
Anirudh Shankar
Anirudh Venkatesh
Anisha Gururaj
Anjna Swaminathan
Anuradha Sridhar
Anusha Ramakrishnan
Anu Suresh
Aparajitha Giridar
Aparna M. Sridhar
Aparna Thyagarajan
Apoorva Das
Apoorva Rajesh
Aravind Bhargav
Archana Bharadwaj
Archana Venkatesan
Arjun Ramachandran
Arthi Nadhan
Arthi Suresh
Arun Kumar V.K.
Arun Mahadevan
Arun Narayanan
Arun Ramamurthy
Asha Ramesh
Ashvin Bhogendra
Ashvin Ravi
Ashwath Narayanan
Ashwinn Balachandran
Ashwin Srikant
Athrey Nadhan
Avanthika Srinivasan
B. U. Ganesh Prasad
Badrinath Govindarajan
Balakrishnan Raghavan
Bharathi Ramasubban
Bharath Krishna D.R.
Bhavana Iyer
Bhavya Hari
Bombay Jayashri
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Chaitrra Sairam
Chandra Ram
Chandrasekara Sharma G.
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David Claman
Deekshita Venkataraman
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Devina Dutt
Dileep K.J.
Erode Nagaraj
G. V. Subramanyam
Ganavya Doraiswamy
Gayathri Sriram
Gayatri K.
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