Joining Mae in the studio this week on Maed in India is alternative hip-hop artist BC Azad aka Arijit Sett. They speak about his early days in Kolkata’s indie music scene, what drew him to hip-hop, and what being a multilingual rapper means to him. He also performs 3 songs from his debut album ‘Naya Hindustan’!

Song List:
Naya Hindustan (
Aayega Kal (
Boomnation (

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Facebook @lyricalchameleon

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CREDITS:
Host: Mae
Twitter: @maebemaebe
Instagram: @maemariyam
Sound Editing &amp; Additional engineering by: Lakshman Parsuram
Episode Mixed &amp; Mastered by: Kartik Kulkarni
Producer: Shaun Fanthome and Husein Haveliwala
Music Mixed by: Hersh Desai
Recorded at Island City Studios

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Whether it’s a shoegaze band from Chandigarh, thrash metal act from Visakhapatnam, rapper from Kashmir, vocal folk quartet from Kohima, Tamil indie pop act from Madurai, or a singer-songwriter from Mussoorie, Maed in India is where you’ll discover it.
Started in 2015, music nerd and ex-radio presenter Mae Mariyam Thomas showcases the best talent coming out of South Asia and its diaspora. 
The show is India’s first indie music podcast and prides itself on being the premier destination for new music, little known stories that give you a peek into the lives of independent musicians, as well as being an ongoing archive of unreleased music never heard before.
“Remember that in the darkest days when everything stopped, you turned to artists.” - Jishnu Bandyopadhyay