India, Sept. 2 -- Veteran singer Hariharan completes 50 years in the music industry next year, and while he reflects on this fruitful journey with gratitude and pride, he does lament the state that the current Indian music scene is in. With 15-second hooks, viral Reels and algorithms dictating the kind of music being made, the veteran believes that somewhere that has cost the soul of creative music.

Giving his opinion on the current state of music in India, Hariharan says, "If you're going to do music with all these values like algorithms and data in mind, what kind of music are you making? You don't do music then. You do something, which I don't even know what it is, but it's not music for sure. And there will be a weakness in that beca...