India, Oct. 14 -- Hindustan Times reported that music has become a “silent partner” to youth-dominated protests, with composers creating and recirculating tracks used widely in social media reels tied to protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Special Intensive Revision process.
How a hook line became a protest track
The report said Salman Khan used a line on July 23 during the Cockroach Janata Party protests to ask activist Sonam Wangchuk to end his hunger strike, and leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi later carried a poster with the line on October 6 at a protest calling for the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner.
It said that between those dates, a 22-year-old undergraduate student in New Delhi ad...