Guwahati, Aug. 27 -- Stuti Choudhury's first original single, "It's All Just Empty Air," came to me at an interesting and relevant time. The last few months have been tough, and both emotionally and physiologically challenging, owing to all that I was experiencing in my professional life. While it wasn't something that I was experiencing for the first time, the scale at which it was all unfolding and the sheer number of lives and families that were wrecked by it proved to be something entirely new for me to see up close and personal.

It also gave me an opportunity, after many years, to see truly how self-centred, uncaring, and brutal humans can be to one another when it came to defending their own interests and compartmentalizing their v...