If you’re having a bad day in college and storm out of your classroom, chances are that there will always be one person playing the guitar in the hallway or the canteen. And chances are that the musician is preparing for an upcoming intercollegiate competition — because let’s face it; in this city there’s no end to those. But for long, those tunes have only been restricted to covers of popular songs that leave young artistes with little identity of their own. The indie music circuit in India is still in its nascent stage. And so, Ripples, the annual flagship music event of Sophia College, has decided to shed light on independent artistes through this year’s theme, Unfiltered.

Tejas Menon