In 2016, Pragya Pallavi was bedridden for a while with a torn ligament. And around five years before that — encouraged by an American resident who she was then in a clandestine relationship with — she had come out to her family as a lesbian. It hadn't been an easy decision. Her mother and grandmother, for instance, had found it difficult initially to come to terms with her sexual orientation. But her father was on her side. Thus, within a month-odd, the matriarchs in the family showed her their support, too.

But coming back to her prostrate situation, Pallavi, at that phase in her life, had a lot of time to think. She had been trained in Indian classical music from the age of five, having been enrolled into an institution that her grandmother ran in Patna, which is where the family is from. And after her musical direction had taken a more western route, she had composed a song called Mama, a coming-out track of sorts. So, lying in bed with her torn ligament, Pallavi thought, "Why not extend the idea and come up with an EP that addresses the struggles that the LGBTQ community faces every day?"