It might not be such a bad idea if your 18-year-old wannabe artiste son wakes up one day and tells you: “Mum, I want to be an Indie artiste.” From the sound of it, there seems to be a slow, seismic shift as far as the Independent music scene goes.

Peter Cat Recording Co’s Suryakant Sawhney gets lost on stage, with Rohan Kulshreshtha on bass in the background. Pic courtesy/Peyush Baranwal