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October 20, 2026 — "Sammy talks to Nihaarika" · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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  Speaker 1: South Asian music and culture can be.
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  Speaker 2: Found around the world.
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  Speaker 3: We track down the best and present it here for
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  Speaker 3: you on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, this is Madhavan P. Bhasky and you're listening to
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  Speaker 4: The Bridge with Sami Chand.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, this is Jayad here and you're listening to The
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  Speaker 5: Bridge with Sami Chand.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, this is Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Satyendra Sattar and.
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  Speaker 8: You're listening to The Bridge hosted by my dear friend,
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  Speaker 8: Sammy Chan on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you very much for finding the signal here on
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  Speaker 9: a Tuesday morning. For all you folks listening to Ruckus
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  Speaker 9: Avenue Radio, a big shout out. And wherever you may
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  Speaker 9: be finding this signal on this planet, our gratitude to you.
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  Speaker 9: When you talk about Tuesday shows, this is a special one.
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  Speaker 9: Niharika is an artist that was previously signed to Sony Music.
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  Speaker 9: And along the way decided that being an independent artist
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  Speaker 9: was the best way for her. And that's a fascinating story.
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  Speaker 9: Because usually artists don't go in that direction, they go
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  Speaker 9: the other way. And if they did go in that direction,
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  Speaker 9: it's usually something very conscious on the artist's side. They're
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  Speaker 9: looking for autonomy, they're looking for creative freedom, they're looking
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  Speaker 9: for a search for identity. And I guess in Niharika's case,
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  Speaker 9: I'm really curious to see which one of those three
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  Speaker 9: it was, or if it was some part of all
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  Speaker 9: of those things, all in one answer. But a very
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  Speaker 9: successful artist out there right now from Delhi. And I'm
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  Speaker 9: going to talk to her about not only what it's
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  Speaker 9: like to be out there as an independent artist, but
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  Speaker 9: what she's got planned. Very exciting artist that we've been
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  Speaker 9: keeping tabs of here on Ruckus Avenue Radio. Stay tuned
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  Speaker 9: for Naharika today. Got Nish stopping by as we do
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  Speaker 9: every Tuesday. We'll be joined by the Ruckus Avenue Radio All-Stars,
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  Speaker 9: Dorita Dasgupta, and then we'll also be joined by Dr. Roy.
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  Speaker 9: But today, folks, get ready for Niharika. So let's get
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  Speaker 9: this show going, and we'll start with Arshdeep Maan. The
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  Speaker 9: song is called Son Lage. Welcome to the bridge.
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  Speaker 7: Aapni kamhai tere utte por dhu, Aapni kamhai tere utte
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  Speaker 7: por dhu, Chattopair jaap daaya maala alde, So lagge une
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  Speaker 7: maar muk jaanani, Tuchheti chheti gaal naal laala alde, So
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  Speaker 7: lagge une maar muk jaanani, Tuchheti chheti gaal naal laala alde,
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  Speaker 7: Tere baare ho sooch da khyaal je.
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  Speaker 2: Pher toor aao tere.
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  Speaker 7: Naal naal je Tere baar yo ho soch da khiyal
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  Speaker 7: je Pher toor aao tere naal naal je Rab ne
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  Speaker 7: yo soorth banai aisi hai Rab ne yo soorth banai.
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  Speaker 10: Aisi hai Tupch bhi chade hunu pala alde Saun lagge
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  Speaker 10: huni marmukh jana ni Tuchheti chheti kaal naal laala alde
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  Speaker 10: Saun lagge huni marmukh jana ni Tuchheti chheti kaal naal.
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  Speaker 2: Laala Thank you. Jee kare soni ye jwani.
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  Speaker 7: Te thwaardaan Kee kara kala tainu wekh wekh saardaan Tera
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  Speaker 7: parichama ban kumda firhaan Tera parichama ban kumda firhaan Hai
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  Speaker 7: me na tulaja milaaraan alre Saun lagge une marmuk janani Tucheti.
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  Speaker 10: Cheti gaal naal laala alre Saun lagge une marmuk janani.
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  Speaker 2: Tucheti cheti gaal naal laala alre.
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  Speaker 7: Shaini da Arshdeep likhda ya geetni Milne di unu koi
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  Speaker 7: deja tu tarikni Shainedaar Shadeep writes a song Now there
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  Speaker 7: is no way to meet her Love is always before
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  Speaker 7: you Love is always before you You won't get life again,
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  Speaker 7: my dear When you are in love with her, you
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  Speaker 7: will be in love with her You will be in
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  Speaker 7: love with her, you will be.
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  Speaker 2: In love with her.
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  Speaker 9: The song debuted at number 10 on the Bridge Countdown show.
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  Speaker 9: Thought we'd open up our Tuesday program with this one.
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  Speaker 9: Arshti Paman, everybody. Hope you're enjoying yourselves wherever you are
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  Speaker 9: on a Tuesday morning. I want to thank you. We've
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  Speaker 9: got Niharika stopping by. In the meantime, here's Arjeet Singh
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  Speaker 9: from the movie Udta Teer.
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  Speaker 11: Ranjha Jogi Aparna Firda Teri Ata Vich Kamla Rama Takda
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  Speaker 11: Teri Aani Tu Acha Beliya Ranjha Jogi Aparna Firda Teri
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  Speaker 11: Ata Vich Kamla Rama.
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  Speaker 2: Takda Teri Aani Tu.
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  Speaker 11: Chann to bhi chunga tera mukhda hai jaana Chann tere
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  Speaker 11: mukhda da hi tukda hai jaana Taino.
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  Speaker 2: Takde rene vich lagda hai dil Bin tere.
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  Speaker 11: Renda ukhda ukhda hai jaana Ruhedari teri My responsibility is
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  Speaker 11: to live my life with you Listen to me.
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  Speaker 12: My love.
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  Speaker 11: Mere ranja jogiya parne fir da teri aataan.
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  Speaker 2: Vich kamda Raava tak.
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  Speaker 6: Da teri aani tu aaja beliya Ranja jogiya parne fir
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  Speaker 6: da teri aataan.
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  Speaker 2: Vich kamda Raava tak da teri aani tu aaja.
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  Speaker 11: Beliya Ruhedari teri zimevari meri.
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  Speaker 2: Wari tere te jind jaano.
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  Speaker 11: Your kindness, your responsibility, my life depends on you. Listen
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  Speaker 11: to me, my love. Listen to me, my love. I've
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  Speaker 11: been roaming in your memories since I was a child.
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  Speaker 11: I've been waiting for you.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I know, you know, the story of my heart.
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  Speaker 6: My heart feels like it knows the whole world.
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  Speaker 2: My prayer, my heaven, you are my heart.
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  Speaker 6: Your friends, my friends, there.
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  Speaker 11: Is no one more beautiful than you. Hoshi yari meri,
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  Speaker 11: meha tere te kurpaano e Ruhedari teri, zimebari meri Arjit Singh,
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  Speaker 11: lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya. It's Sachin Jigar's latest collection of
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  Speaker 11: work under the Udta Deer soundtrack.
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  Speaker 9: Play some more songs from that. Keep your eyes and
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  Speaker 9: ears open for that. The song is called Chan. Folks,
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  Speaker 9: this is only nine days away from the Painted Feelings
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  Speaker 9: EP that is coming out. Telvinder's latest one. Telvinder also
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  Speaker 9: has a Telvinder Hour here on Ruckus Avenue Radio that
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  Speaker 9: you need to go check out. This song is called
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  Speaker 9: Mangda Vapas Kyun.
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  Speaker 13: First you used to laugh at me You used to
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  Speaker 13: harass me Now you talk about why not, why not,
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  Speaker 13: why not, why not, why not First.
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  Speaker 2: You used to laugh at me You used to harass me.
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  Speaker 13: Hey you, you didn't value me, I fought the world
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  Speaker 13: behind you, I didn't see you for a while. Hey you,
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  Speaker 13: you didn't value me, I fought the world behind.
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  Speaker 2: You, I didn't see you.
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  Speaker 14: For a while.
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  Speaker 15: Why are you coming back, why did you lose me,
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  Speaker 15: why did you lose me, why? .
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  Speaker 13: .
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  Speaker 16: Toh kendi mai chhuta ki ta ki nahi tere lai
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  Speaker 16: Saade pyaar da bhuta paani paaya vi sukha Toh kendi
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  Speaker 16: mai chhuta ki ta ki nahi tere lai Saade pyaar
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  Speaker 16: da bhuta paani paaya vi sukha.
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  Speaker 2: Yeh sukh gaya kyun?
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  Speaker 13: Mainu das ja tu me tiyan nahi rakhaya kyun? Hun
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  Speaker 13: pashta mega main teri banke rahna nahi hun What did
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  Speaker 13: you lose?
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  Speaker 2: What did you get from me? What did you get
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  Speaker 2: from me? What did you get from me?
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  Speaker 17: What did you get from me?
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  Speaker 13: What did you get from me?
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  Speaker 2: What did you get from me? What did you get
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  Speaker 2: from me?
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  Speaker 9: Produced by NDS. Featuring Kit J.
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  Speaker 18: West.
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  Speaker 9: Now it's time for Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Roy.
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  Speaker 17: Hey guys, this is Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Roy with today's Word on the Avenue.
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  Speaker 17: In film and TV news... Indian musical icon Shreya Kaushal
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  Speaker 17: is making headlines amid reports that she may join the
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  Speaker 17: Recording Academy's Grammy Awards voting body, a role that allows
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  Speaker 17: members to participate in selecting nominees and winners. Celebrated for
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  Speaker 17: her contributions to Indian music across multiple languages, Kaushal could
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  Speaker 17: reach another major milestone in her career, although her voting
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  Speaker 17: membership has not yet been officially confirmed by the Recording Academy.
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  Speaker 2: In media news... MAC.
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  Speaker 17: Cosmetics Canada is celebrating the beauty of Indian festive traditions
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  Speaker 17: through the stories of four makeup influencers whose getting-ready rituals
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  Speaker 17: are rooted in family memories and cultural heritage. From jasmine
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  Speaker 17: flowers and gajal to the glow of diyas and the
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  Speaker 17: familiar scent of MAC lipstick, the campaign captures how festive
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  Speaker 17: beauty connects generations through memory, meaning, and the feeling of home.
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  Speaker 2: In event news.
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  Speaker 17: South African jurist of Indian Tamil origin Navanetham Navipillai has
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  Speaker 17: been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her lifelong
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  Speaker 17: efforts to advance human rights, peace, and international justice. The
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  Speaker 17: 85-year-old former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights began her
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  Speaker 17: career defending anti-apartheid activities and later helped establish sexual violence
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  Speaker 17: as a prosecutable crime under international law, earning recognition for
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  Speaker 17: her decades of work holding perpetrators of serious crimes accountable.
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  Speaker 17: That's it for today's Word on the Avenue.
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  Speaker 2: Until next time.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you very much, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Roy.
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  Speaker 9: This song we've got for you is a song by
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  Speaker 9: an artist named Nijr. The song is called Baddie.
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  Speaker 11: Baddie.
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  Speaker 19: Jattbari o lehnde O rehri pappa par kaartunga aad ki
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  Speaker 19: Tu jattbari.
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  Speaker 2: O lehnde They are sitting in the dark, they.
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  Speaker 9: Are not doing their mission.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, God is doing it. There is no one
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  Speaker 2: who breaks the rules of the day. There is no
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  Speaker 2: one who wants to go and beat people up. They
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  Speaker 2: break the rules of the day. See who is right
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  Speaker 2: and who is wrong. There is no one who.
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  Speaker 19: Is right and who is wrong. There is no one
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  Speaker 19: who is right and who is wrong. There is no
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  Speaker 19: one who is right and who is wrong. There is
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  Speaker 19: no one who is right and who is wrong.
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  Speaker 2: There is no one who is right and who is wrong.
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  Speaker 2: There is no one who is right and who is wrong.
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  Speaker 2: There is no one who is right and.
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  Speaker 9: Who is wrong.
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  Speaker 2: There is no one who is right and who is wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I will do it on my dad I will do
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  Speaker 2: it on my dad You are.
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  Speaker 19: The king of the land I will make you sit
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  Speaker 19: on the cot You are the king of the land
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  Speaker 19: I will do it on my dad You are the
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  Speaker 19: king of the land My mother used to say that
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  Speaker 19: I am like a diamond She used to look at
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  Speaker 19: me and say that I am like a diamond She
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  Speaker 19: used to look at me and say that I am
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  Speaker 19: like a diamond She used to look at me and
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  Speaker 19: say that I am.
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  Speaker 2: A diamond.
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  Speaker 19: .
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  Speaker 2: .
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  Speaker 19: .
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  Speaker 2: Hold on a day.
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  Speaker 3: I do a top 10 playlist. Y'all come by, y'all enjoy,
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  Speaker 3: and we have an amazing time. And you get to
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  Speaker 3: go home saying, I knew that artist before it was cool.
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  Speaker 3: So tune in every Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST for
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  Speaker 3: the Garage Mahal, exclusively on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you very much, Nish.
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  Speaker 1: We'll tune in today at 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 9: Eastern.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 19: I'm in the middle of a plaza, I'm in the
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  Speaker 19: middle of a river. I'm like you, I don't even
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  Speaker 19: remember your face. You have black eyes, you don't even
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  Speaker 19: look at women. You don't even wear a black suit.
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  Speaker 19: You don't live, you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't even live.
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  Speaker 19: Tell me, you don't even look at women. I saw
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  Speaker 19: you in the moon, I.
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  Speaker 2: Gave you a kiss.
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  Speaker 19: Your face was bigger than the moon. Your head went
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  Speaker 19: up and down. I'll take you to America without us.
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  Speaker 19: I'm in the middle of a plaza, I'm in the
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  Speaker 19: middle of a plaza. I'm in the middle of a
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  Speaker 19: .
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  Speaker 2: .
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  Speaker 19: In dollars, the currency of Canada is running. All the
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  Speaker 19: Jews are playing with the pilot. We have kept the
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  Speaker 19: lives of animals in our pockets. There is no need
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  Speaker 19: for them, we don't have to buy them. We don't
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  Speaker 19: have to buy the meat of the Narjigarh. We don't
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  Speaker 19: have to buy the Jatmele and Tulambe in Dindi. We
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  Speaker 19: don't have to buy them in open accounts.
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  Speaker 2: We are one, our passion is one. We make fashion
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  Speaker 2: on our pockets. We are one, our captain is one.
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  Speaker 2: We are one, our level is one. Formula one, two
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  Speaker 2: G-wagons are one.
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  Speaker 19: Today with you, Let's smoke a cigarette We don't have
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  Speaker 19: money in our bank, we are board bank zombies We
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  Speaker 19: don't eat PGA, we don't eat Zirni We don't care
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  Speaker 19: about the.
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  Speaker 2: Tank Noor-e-Mittra They brought us here.
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  Speaker 19: They brought us here Our journey is written in the
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  Speaker 19: air Our dictionary is filled with love But the chain
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  Speaker 19: goes and runs in our eyes We don't go to
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  Speaker 19: the gym, let's go on a train Let's get rid
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  Speaker 19: of the.
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  Speaker 2: Jealousy in the day.
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  Speaker 19: Let's get rid of the jealousy in the day Let's
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  Speaker 19: get rid of the jealousy in the day Gur Sidhu, Kaptan,
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  Speaker 19: the song called Breezy.
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  Speaker 9: Big show ahead for you guys today. We're going to
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  Speaker 9: be talking to Niharika all the way from Delhi. Tuning
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  Speaker 9: in with her on a late Tuesday night over there.
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  Speaker 9: Looking forward to it. And then, of course, tomorrow and Thursday,
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  Speaker 9: we're going to be talking to Amal Malik.
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  Speaker 2: A two-day interview.
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  Speaker 9: How about that? This is his song with Arijit Singh
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  Speaker 9: called Yeh Avarapan.
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  Speaker 8: Mere Zindagi To listen to Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
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  Speaker 8: Oh Yeah!
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  Speaker 12: The city that once was empty, is now desolate All
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  Speaker 12: happiness is lost.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah!
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  Speaker 9: I'm so excited about tomorrow, talking to Amal Malik. And
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  Speaker 9: I've never done a two-day tribute-slash-interview session with somebody, so
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  Speaker 9: it's the very first time that we're doing that. So
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  Speaker 9: make sure you tune in tomorrow for that big episode
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  Speaker 9: of The Bridge. We've got a big one still ahead.
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  Speaker 9: Niharika's going to be stopping by here very shortly. We've
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  Speaker 9: got Romi Huda with his latest song called Pump Up.
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  Speaker 22: Ek jim ki laga hai, phir lat gaavro Tee se
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  Speaker 22: tee se ke bana hai, phir pat gaavro Chatti me
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  Speaker 22: bana hai, phir kat gaavro Na raha tat gaavro Ek
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  Speaker 22: jim ki laga hai, phir lat gaavro Tee se tee
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  Speaker 22: se ke bana hai, phir pat gaavro Chatti me bana hai,
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  Speaker 22: phir kat gaavro Na raha.
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  Speaker 2: Tat gaavro.
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  Speaker 23: .
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  Speaker 16: .
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  Speaker 14: Chal maari rep palet badi jawe Chicken breast or egg
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  Speaker 14: ki karet badi jawe Karu dhin pe dhin karo jab
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  Speaker 14: bet badi jawe Mera khud mein reshiv mein roj feth
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  Speaker 14: badi jawe.
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  Speaker 22: In paave ko nagele ale jaaria mein In paave ge
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  Speaker 22: ha bethe thunaria mein Ham surute re kranti kaaria mein
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  Speaker 22: Ham surute reza ghillariya mein.
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  Speaker 14: It's
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  Speaker 14: Romi Hooda.
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  Speaker 2: The song is called Pump Up.
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  Speaker 9: Folks, we're getting ready to pull in Niharika into this episode,
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  Speaker 9: and I thought about what song to play before we
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  Speaker 9: bring her out. And I was thinking about doing something
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  Speaker 9: with two artists that we've spoken to here on the show.
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  Speaker 9: One is Bali, and the other one is Niharika, who
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  Speaker 9: we're about to have on right after this. Stand by
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  Speaker 9: for Niharika.
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  Speaker 15: Niharika.
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  Speaker 23: I don't know what to say, but it's a fun
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  Speaker 23: fact I don't have any illness, I'm just sick I
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  Speaker 23: don't have anything, I don't have their respect I hit
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  Speaker 23: them in the face, I'm.
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  Speaker 24: A failure, bad I met a fan, he said, bro,
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  Speaker 24: we took your album We want to snort your powder,
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  Speaker 24: tell come I go to the park, somewhere Rohit Sharma
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  Speaker 24: tells me, you son of a bitch, tell come My
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  Speaker 24: mind and tongue, I'm welcome I'm welcome means two things, Mishra,
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  Speaker 24: you're welcome I'm crazy, I'm in everyone's shoes One cup
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  Speaker 24: high and over time it is, wear the watch My
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  Speaker 24: fight with me, I have a fist fight with these
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  Speaker 24: hands I don't have a habit of speaking plainly, I
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  Speaker 24: just sit quietly I stand up looking at the mirror
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  Speaker 24: Because nowadays there are a lot of big people, get
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  Speaker 24: up and sit My lips need a collab of your
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  Speaker 24: cheeks Morning assembly, I want the most famous cab. You're
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  Speaker 24: not a true fan if you don't want the name
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  Speaker 24: of my name. To reach me, child.
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  Speaker 9: Do you want a cab?
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  Speaker 24: At the end of the year, I was making a
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  Speaker 24: guest list for my wedding.
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  Speaker 9: I was calling the industry and the on-core.
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  Speaker 24: I was calling the industry and the on-core.
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  Speaker 2: I was calling the industry and the on-core. I was
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  Speaker 2: calling the industry and the on-core.
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  Speaker 9: I was calling the industry and the on-core.
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  Speaker 24: I was calling the industry and the on-core. and ladies and.
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  Speaker 9: And ladies and gentlemen, all the way from Delhi here
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: on a night time over there and a morning over
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: here for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's the wonderful Niharika.
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: How are you?
• 29:47
  Speaker 25: Hi, I'm really, really excited and happy to be speaking
• 29:54
  Speaker 25: to you. And yeah, thank you for spending your time
• 29:58
  Speaker 25: as well for me.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: It means a lot.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, it's a true treat for us to be
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: talking to you.
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: And Niharika, I wanted to, first of all, let's start
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: this conversation by asking you the first question, which is,
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: says a multigrain artist. What is exactly a multigrain artist?
• 30:14
  Speaker 9: And most importantly, what are those grains that you're referring to?
• 30:19
  Speaker 25: Well you know if I were a bread I would
• 30:22
  Speaker 25: be the multigrain one and.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: So it was just to add a little bit of
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: humor in my Instagram profile.
• 30:29
  Speaker 25: Because I feel like social media shouldn't be taken as
• 30:32
  Speaker 25: seriously as people are taking it these days even though
• 30:35
  Speaker 25: I genuinely feel it should be used for you know
• 30:37
  Speaker 25: talking about the important thing but I like to I'm
• 30:40
  Speaker 25: the kind of person who likes to find the humor
• 30:42
  Speaker 25: in the most serious situations so yeah that was just
• 30:45
  Speaker 25: my attempt at making a light-hearted bio and multigrain because
• 30:49
  Speaker 25: i feel like uh my the kind of music i
• 30:53
  Speaker 25: do and i want to do is just versatile and
• 30:56
  Speaker 25: not be limited to one genre or one kind of
• 30:59
  Speaker 25: uh one kind of category i genuinely want to explore
• 31:04
  Speaker 25: music and with music explore myself also.
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah i could we could tell that of course from
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: delhi you've been putting out music through even people like
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: sony music since Back in 2024, and your story continues
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: with the music that you put out even now. And
• 31:20
  Speaker 9: when you, growing up in an environment like Delhi, where
• 31:24
  Speaker 9: the culture is all around you, and call yourself a
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: multigrain artist, to me, I think that the analogy sits
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: in the fact that I think you probably have so
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: many different influences.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you very honestly, the only thing I'm inspired
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: by is.
• 31:53
  Speaker 25: Creating a change in my family generations that have been
• 31:57
  Speaker 25: going on. No other influences, no big story to tell,
• 32:01
  Speaker 25: but I am just a middle-class girl with dreams. I
• 32:03
  Speaker 25: know it sounds too cliche, but in my whole family,
• 32:08
  Speaker 25: everyone's either a doctor or an engineer. Education is very important.
• 32:13
  Speaker 25: And as I said, not even education, but degree is
• 32:16
  Speaker 25: very important.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: A good distinction. Very good distinction to make.
• 32:20
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 32:22
  Speaker 25: Yeah and I don't know I just feel like I
• 32:27
  Speaker 25: learned more about the world and myself through music not
• 32:32
  Speaker 25: through but like the process of making music just sitting
• 32:35
  Speaker 25: idle and letting my mind wander made me stomp on
• 32:39
  Speaker 25: questions that I would have not otherwise and I think
• 32:42
  Speaker 25: they have helped me a lot in shaping the kind
• 32:44
  Speaker 25: of person I am or I want to become generally
• 32:47
  Speaker 25: so I think music plays a huge role in that
• 32:50
  Speaker 25: and yeah, that's what inspires me to be the kind
• 32:55
  Speaker 25: of person I think in my head Niharika should be.
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I hear you. This is a really interesting story
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: that I've picked up about you because you put out
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: your work through Sony and then all of a sudden
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: you are in a place where you take on the
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: fight as the independent artist, to me, which is the best.
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: You get to be who you are, you get to
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: put the music out that you like to do, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: For me, what was that decision like for you? You've
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: built this career, this kind of story. You get signed
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: by Sony. You put that project out. And I think
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: we all learn from those things. Being on a label
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: is great. It's not everything all the time. You definitely
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: get what you get from it. But there is this
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: level of becoming an artist. But there's a decision behind
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: that usually. Guide me through the moment when you were like,
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: you know what? I'm going to go this direction because
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: this is what I really want to go. And this
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: is how I want to express myself.
• 33:52
  Speaker 25: Yeah, I feel like I've been really blessed and that
• 33:56
  Speaker 25: I got that opportunity to work with Sony Music India
• 33:59
  Speaker 25: very early on. And it worked both in my favor
• 34:03
  Speaker 25: and against me as well because I was very new
• 34:06
  Speaker 25: to the whole music industry and just to music in general,
• 34:09
  Speaker 25: making my own music and trying to understand what kind
• 34:12
  Speaker 25: of music I resonate with the most. So while working
• 34:16
  Speaker 25: with a label as big as Sony Music India, I
• 34:20
  Speaker 25: realized that I do not know myself enough to tell
• 34:24
  Speaker 25: people who I am or what I stand for or what.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: I believe in.
• 34:28
  Speaker 25: As a girl from India or to be specific, we
• 34:33
  Speaker 25: always usually have a very protected upbringing wherein all the
• 34:36
  Speaker 25: decisions are made for us. We never usually, and they
• 34:40
  Speaker 25: can be good and bad both. I'm not saying they're
• 34:42
  Speaker 25: usually bad, but yeah, most of our decisions are made
• 34:46
  Speaker 25: for ourselves, made for.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Us by other people. So when I got this huge opportunity,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I was just confused. Okay, I have the platform.
• 34:54
  Speaker 25: And I know how to make art, but I don't
• 34:56
  Speaker 25: really know how to make the most of it or what.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Exactly I want to do.
• 35:02
  Speaker 25: So I made the decision that after this contract gets over,
• 35:06
  Speaker 25: I want to be independent. Not because I have anything
• 35:09
  Speaker 25: against labels or.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: I feel like it's an opportunity and it's on you
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: what you make the most of, what you make most
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: of it.
• 35:18
  Speaker 25: But I wanted to be independent so that I can
• 35:22
  Speaker 25: actually understand my journey better. And I feel like you
• 35:25
  Speaker 25: can do that only when you hustle.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: And go through the mud.
• 35:33
  Speaker 25: And on top of all of these things, I genuinely
• 35:35
  Speaker 25: believed in my art. I loved my songs and I
• 35:39
  Speaker 25: genuinely felt like if it reached people, they would like it.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: And most importantly, I liked them. So I had lots
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: and lots of fun performing it.
• 35:47
  Speaker 25: And I enjoyed having the freedom of experimenting. And it's
• 35:51
  Speaker 25: okay when it's a flop. I can say that I
• 35:53
  Speaker 25: tried a new thing.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: And I feel like that really was experience. So I
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: just went for it. Yeah.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: Niharika, there's something that I'm hearing in your story, which
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: is perhaps an acknowledgement of something, and I'm not calling
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: out any labels by any means.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: We work a lot with all the labels.
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: It's more so from the artist's perspective, which I hear
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: quite a bit, which is one of the things that
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: our labels... out there still quite don't do very well
• 36:23
  Speaker 9: is establish a narrative around the artist, but still something
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: that they're getting into. I think they're learning how to
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: do it, as we all do. And the nature of
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: how they deal with their artists in terms of contractually
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: puts them in very difficult dynamics to really have the
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: runway to establish such a narrative. I get the feeling
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: that one of the movements that you considered in this
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: independent side is that you get to, as you put it,
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: go through the hustle and go through the mud. And
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: to me, that is establishing a narrative out there where
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: people can start to know who you are based on
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: the virtues that you put out there. Okay, now, my
• 36:59
  Speaker 9: question to you is this. Do you recognize the same thing?
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: Do you think that artists, when they're going out there,
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: whether they're independent or not, it doesn't matter, but do
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: you think artists need to pay more attention to the
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: narrative that they're putting out, not just the music?
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: 100%.
• 37:18
  Speaker 25: I think if they want a long-term success, there needs
• 37:22
  Speaker 25: to be something they stand for other than just making
• 37:26
  Speaker 25: good songs. Because every day, 10 lakh people do that, sir.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And they're making good songs too.
• 37:32
  Speaker 25: But as a brand, what do you want to be?
• 37:35
  Speaker 25: I feel like when you work with labels or any
• 37:37
  Speaker 25: other business part of the music.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: So those people just.
• 37:46
  Speaker 25: But you need to decide for yourself how you want
• 37:52
  Speaker 25: to be represented and what kind of person you want
• 37:55
  Speaker 25: to be as an artist because you have the platform,
• 37:58
  Speaker 25: you have the voice and what do you want to
• 38:00
  Speaker 25: use it for? If you want to just use it
• 38:02
  Speaker 25: for making money, then that's your way.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I don't think there's no judgment at all.
• 38:06
  Speaker 25: But if you want to If you feel like you
• 38:10
  Speaker 25: want to make a difference, there needs to be something
• 38:12
  Speaker 25: you need to stand for. And that you can do
• 38:16
  Speaker 25: by spending time with yourself and learning a little bit
• 38:20
  Speaker 25: about yourself, having a little bit of knowledge about what's happening,
• 38:24
  Speaker 25: what's not happening. Being under a protected shelter kind of
• 38:28
  Speaker 25: distracts you from all of those things.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: That's correct. Put. So.
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: So I think if you want to create.
• 38:54
  Speaker 25: An impact, if you want to create a difference, then
• 38:57
  Speaker 25: 100% you need to have a narrative.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: Be it wrong or right, but have an opinion. So
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: that people are talking about things that matter.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Incredible.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: Thank you very much for that. That was a great answer.
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: And there is no real right answer, but that's the
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: right answer.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Seven crores.
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: That was really interesting. I noticed after your Gurgaon performance
• 39:20
  Speaker 9: this summer, you posted something that was really interesting. You said,
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: I love singing, I love performing, I love being an artist.
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: I was going to ask you, what happened that night?
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: to make you declare that in that way? And I
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: know that there is a, I don't know, people would say, oh,
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: she just came off the stage. She was feeling the
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: vibe and she did that. But I get that there
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: was probably more to it than just that.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what?
• 39:44
  Speaker 25: Honestly, those people didn't pay me one penny. Everything that
• 39:49
  Speaker 25: went was out of my pocket. All I got was
• 39:53
  Speaker 25: the stage and I enjoyed.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Every second of it. And that's when I realized I'm
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: doing it for the moment and not for anything else.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: And I'm just like, I love this, man. I love
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: being an artist.
• 40:04
  Speaker 25: I love performing myself. I love getting reactions out of people.
• 40:07
  Speaker 25: I love when people like me and I love when
• 40:09
  Speaker 25: they talk to me.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: So, Yeah, that's all.
• 40:12
  Speaker 25: I really enjoy every bit of it, 100%.
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: I wanted to pull up a song title that I noticed.
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: I always look at artists' song titles. It tells me
• 40:21
  Speaker 9: a lot about them. It's a funny thing that I have.
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: And I go through it, and I saw one title
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: that you recently put out. It was called Urdu Mi Gita.
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: And I stopped at it and I was like, okay,
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: I'm going to listen to this. And I listened to it,
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: but I wanted to ask you, those are two interesting
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: words to put side by side. And it's essentially from
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: a cultural level. I think that beyond just the obvious,
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: how did people react to the title? And then before
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: you can even tell me that, what is the song
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: about from your eyes?
• 40:50
  Speaker 18: The song was basically about me being done with, all
• 40:58
  Speaker 18: the rules and regulations and ideologies and beliefs.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: I was just lost. I was just, I didn't know
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: what exactly.
• 41:09
  Speaker 25: I was just sharing my experience of when I was
• 41:12
  Speaker 25: just feeling like all the things that are important to
• 41:17
  Speaker 25: people around me, like religion, to talk about. It's a
• 41:22
  Speaker 25: sensitive topic, but I feel like you should be talking
• 41:25
  Speaker 25: about sensitive things so that they are not as sensitive
• 41:28
  Speaker 25: as they are you know so things like religion or
• 41:34
  Speaker 25: things like I would say things that create a difference
• 41:39
  Speaker 25: between one person to the other it could be anything
• 41:43
  Speaker 25: and when sitting in when I was.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Sitting in my room alone.
• 41:47
  Speaker 25: I just needed a friend one friend who could just
• 41:51
  Speaker 25: be what I wanted them to be at that moment
• 41:54
  Speaker 25: and I didn't care what race they were from, what
• 41:57
  Speaker 25: religion they were from, what was their age or what was,
• 42:02
  Speaker 25: you know, their political view.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: I just wanted some human connection. And, uh, that is,
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: that song is all about that beneath all of this. Sure.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: And loudness.
• 42:14
  Speaker 25: There is a silence, which where we all come together.
• 42:18
  Speaker 25: I think.
• 42:19
  Speaker 26: Yeah. Yeah.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you putting that in front of people.
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: It's a, beautiful song and a topic that I think
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: that a lot of people need to hear.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: And so thank you for sharing that with the world.
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: My audience is very globally based. They are here in
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: North America, but they are in all of the places
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: that the diaspora exists.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: And it's a very interesting market.
• 42:44
  Speaker 9: And I recently had the great Nayab Mida on the
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: show who toured North America. And I asked her, I said,
• 42:51
  Speaker 9: there's one thing What was the one thing you took
• 42:53
  Speaker 9: away from being here?
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: And she said something interesting. She said, the fact that
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: we are so similar.
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: And when we're in India, we look at the Indian
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: people that have moved out or in the diaspora, whatever
• 43:03
  Speaker 9: it might be, as being somebody that we're not sure
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: that really connect to us. But she said that she
• 43:08
  Speaker 9: was pleasantly surprised in just how small.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: The Indian community feels, no matter where they go around
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: the world. As a music maker.
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: Do you now consider the Indian people around the world
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: when you write your songs? And furthermore, in a moment
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: where Indian music is spreading the way it is and
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: it's now starting to cross boundaries in certain ways, how
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: big is the world that you make music for now?
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be very honest. I just make art for myself.
• 43:42
  Speaker 25: I am not the kind of person who... I want
• 43:45
  Speaker 25: to be, but I'm really not able to think from
• 43:50
  Speaker 25: the business POV of it. I feel like that takes
• 43:53
  Speaker 25: away the authenticity from it. If I consider, oh, what
• 43:58
  Speaker 25: would the person in Africa think.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: About this song? Or what would the person sitting in
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: Europe think about this song? Then I would never be
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: able to come up.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: With a song.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 44:10
  Speaker 25: So I'm in a room with two or three of
• 44:14
  Speaker 25: my friends. They start making a beat. I start jamming
• 44:18
  Speaker 25: on it. And whatever comes from within comes. And if
• 44:21
  Speaker 25: we like it, we relieve it.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: If we feel.
• 44:24
  Speaker 25: Like it's something we can dance to when we perform,
• 44:27
  Speaker 25: we relieve it. I don't think too much about it.
• 44:30
  Speaker 25: And that is why I like it.
• 44:33
  Speaker 9: Niharika, there are a lot of great answers to give out.
• 44:35
  Speaker 9: And there are many right answers. But that right there
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: was the right answer.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: I hope so.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: That was the honest one, at least.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: That's well put.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: My last question for you is something that I love
• 44:49
  Speaker 9: to ask every artist that comes on the show here.
• 44:52
  Speaker 9: And that is, there is a young girl sitting somewhere
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: in Delhi.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: And she is, I don't know, 9, 10, 11, 12.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I don't even know.
• 45:01
  Speaker 9: Somewhere in that kind of age. She looks at you
• 45:04
  Speaker 9: like you're the biggest hero in her life. She wants
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: to be like you one day. What advice would.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: You give her? oh being like me never worked out for.
• 45:15
  Speaker 26: Me so don't be like me just be yourself girl
• 45:19
  Speaker 26: and yeah you'll figure it out there's.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: Only one me there's only one you you do.
• 45:23
  Speaker 26: You that's all i have not had the best life
• 45:26
  Speaker 26: and i am not the best i'm not the best
• 45:28
  Speaker 26: decision maker i'm also figuring it.
• 45:30
  Speaker 25: Out on the way but one thing i would want
• 45:32
  Speaker 25: her to feel when she looks at me that And
• 45:35
  Speaker 25: I'm not saying with any, what do I say, self-hate
• 45:38
  Speaker 25: for myself. But if I'm being self-aware and very honest,
• 45:41
  Speaker 25: I'm not.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: The most good-looking girl.
• 45:43
  Speaker 25: Or I don't come from the most rich background. No
• 45:46
  Speaker 25: one in my family has any music knowledge. And I
• 45:50
  Speaker 25: did not really think I could do this, honestly. I
• 45:55
  Speaker 25: thought it was too big of a dream for someone.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: Like me to dream of. These things only happen to
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: big people.
• 46:03
  Speaker 25: And yeah, I still believed in myself and I felt.
• 46:17
  Speaker 9: Despite that, despite what you think of with, with complete
• 46:22
  Speaker 9: humility that you answered that question in my eyes, but
• 46:25
  Speaker 9: the empowering thing is Despite the humility in this, you
• 46:29
  Speaker 9: still decide to do what you do and put it out.
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: And to me, that's the empowering message here.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: As you do. Yeah, Niharika. And so no matter what,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: even in the humility of your answer.
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: There is so much power there in that response. So
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: thank you. Thank you for sharing that.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: Thank you for asking. All right.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: I'm going to pick a song here.
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: I want you to pick a song for me that
• 46:52
  Speaker 9: your audience should hear right now.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Or my audience, rather, should hear from you right now.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: For my song?
• 46:58
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Which song should I play for everybody?
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go for Urdu Megita.
• 47:04
  Speaker 27: Why not?
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: Let's do that.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: We've talked about it a little bit, so why not
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: play that?
• 47:08
  Speaker 26: All right.
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: Nihayaka, please introduce this song for me, and let's sail
• 47:12
  Speaker 9: out into this song called Urdu Megita.
• 47:16
  Speaker 25: Yeah, so this song, everyone, whoever's listening, this song is
• 47:20
  Speaker 25: called Urdu Meg Gita. It was written, composed and sung
• 47:23
  Speaker 25: by me and produced by my brother Broji. Yeah, I
• 47:27
  Speaker 25: hope you all enjoy it and do whatever you want
• 47:30
  Speaker 25: with your.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you, Niharika, for joining us today. It was a
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  Speaker 9: complete treat to have you on the show. And for folks,
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  Speaker 9: please go follow Niharika on Instagram. I'm going to send
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: a link on there and go check her out on
• 47:42
  Speaker 9: Ruckus Avenue radio socials as well. We're going to share
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: a world about her on there as well. Niharika, thanks
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  Speaker 9: for coming on today on the bridge.
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  Speaker 4: Most welcome. Beautiful feeling. So honored to speak to you again.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you. All right, folks.
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  Speaker 2: Urdu Megita.
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  Speaker 9: Here it is.
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  Speaker 20: Thank you.
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  Speaker 23: I sit quietly in my room, I don't like anything
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  Speaker 23: Who is Geeta in Urdu? I don't like anything I
• 48:14
  Speaker 23: sit quietly in my room, I don't like anything Who
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  Speaker 23: is Geeta in Urdu? I don't like anything I don't.
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  Speaker 27: Like anything.
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  Speaker 23: I can see that she's a guy shopping right now.
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  Speaker 2: I left that.
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  Speaker 23: Street where all the poets used to live I left
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  Speaker 23: that street where all the cowards used to sit Neither
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  Speaker 23: there is day nor night, there is sadness, there is
• 48:57
  Speaker 23: only peace all around I lost my job of hopelessness.
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  Speaker 2: My eyes opened.
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  Speaker 23: I've been sitting in my room quietly. I don't like anything.
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  Speaker 23: I don't like anything.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like anything.
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  Speaker 23: Subchap mere mujhe kesi cheeze ka shok nahi Burdu me
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  Speaker 23: gita kaun ka sahi Mujhe kesi cheeze ka shok nahi
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  Speaker 23: Tabse kamere me baithoon Subchap mere mujhe kesi cheeze ka
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  Speaker 23: shok nahi It's Niharika, everybody.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm going to share some closing remarks on her
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: very shortly. That's a cool song. Urdu Megita Niharika, everybody.
• 49:49
  Speaker 9: And how lovely was it to talk to her? You know,
• 49:53
  Speaker 9: we've been doing this show for quite a while. And
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: it never goes past us. to really respect and recognize
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  Speaker 9: how much the artists do to be so open with
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  Speaker 9: us and share their story and be so vulnerable on
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  Speaker 9: the air. It's not easy. So shout out to Niharika
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  Speaker 9: and shout out to all the other artists that get
• 50:14
  Speaker 9: on the air and share their story. Here's Doita for
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  Speaker 9: you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Sammy.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, everyone.
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  Speaker 21: This is Doita Tashkupta, your Ruckus Avenue radio music correspondent,
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  Speaker 21: back with some fun facts about your favorite artists. Did
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  Speaker 21: you know that Pritam began studying for a master's degree
• 50:28
  Speaker 21: in science after earning a bachelor's degree in geology? His
• 50:32
  Speaker 21: dream of becoming a musician, however, had taken a backseat
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  Speaker 21: as a result. So, Pritam dropped out of his master's
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  Speaker 21: program and enrolled in a sound recording and engineering course
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  Speaker 21: at FTII Pune, India.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's all from me.
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  Speaker 21: Now back to you, Sammy.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you so much, Doita. That's got to be one
• 50:49
  Speaker 9: of my favorite artist spotlight stories out there. Somebody that...
• 50:54
  Speaker 9: You know, by all accounts, you listen to that story
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: there by Doita, and thanks, Doita, by the way. You
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: get the feeling that it almost didn't happen for him.
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  Speaker 9: You know, but it did. And we're all so fortunate
• 51:07
  Speaker 9: because of it. This is Britham. The song is called
• 51:11
  Speaker 9: Tu Hi Dista, and it's with his long-term collaborator, Arjun Singh.
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  Speaker 21: Ruby!
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  Speaker 20: Jitna bhi hai yeh zafar Ik jaisa saari umar Reh
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  Speaker 20: nahi sakta Oh yaara ishq yeh jadoosa hai Bazaaro me.
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  Speaker 28: Yeh nahi bikta Hai lakho me bhi tu aaya nazar
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  Speaker 28: Bazaaro me bhi tu hi ik tha.
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  Speaker 4: Tu hi.
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  Speaker 9: Good night. Dijit Singh, Jonita Gandhi, and Preetam. The song
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  Speaker 9: is called Tuhi Disda. And a big shout out to
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  Speaker 9: Niharika for joining us today. And let me tell you
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  Speaker 9: guys what you just heard today. A girl from UP
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  Speaker 9: from a family of doctors and engineers where, in her words,
• 55:38
  Speaker 9: it wasn't even about the education that got the priority.
• 55:41
  Speaker 9: It was the degree. Nobody in that house knew a
• 55:44
  Speaker 9: thing about music, and she thought this dream was only
• 55:46
  Speaker 9: for big people. Then the big people called. Sony Music India.
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  Speaker 12: Early.
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  Speaker 9: The thing every young artist prays for. And she told
• 55:54
  Speaker 9: you the truth about it. She had the platform. She
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: knew how to make the art. And she didn't know
• 56:00
  Speaker 9: herself well enough yet to tell anyone who she was.
• 56:03
  Speaker 9: So when the artist's contract ended, she did something most
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  Speaker 9: artists would never do on purpose. She walked away from
• 56:10
  Speaker 9: the shelter. Not against labels. But for herself. Because in
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: her words... You only understand your own journey when you
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  Speaker 9: hustle and go through the mud. And here's what she
• 56:22
  Speaker 9: figured out in the mud. Ten lakh people are making
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  Speaker 9: good songs every day. The rare thing is standing for something.
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  Speaker 9: And you can't give words to a struggle you've never
• 56:33
  Speaker 9: felt yourself. She wrote Uddu Megita alone in her room,
• 56:38
  Speaker 9: needing one friend and not caring what religion, race, age,
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  Speaker 9: or politics that friend came with. Beneath all the noise,
• 56:46
  Speaker 9: she said, there's a silence where we all come together.
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  Speaker 9: And when you asked what she'd tell a young girl
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  Speaker 9: in Delhi who wants to be her, she said, don't
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  Speaker 9: be like me. Be yourself. Because if I can do this,
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: anybody can. Call her a multigrain artist if you want.
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  Speaker 9: I'd call her an artist who went looking for herself
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  Speaker 9: and came back.
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  Speaker 1: Niharika.
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  Speaker 9: You heard it here on the bridge, folks. Have a
• 57:12
  Speaker 9: great day, everybody. I'll see you tomorrow. We'll be joined
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: by Amal Malik on a very interesting interview. Have a
• 57:18
  Speaker 9: great day.
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  Speaker 5: Aankho pe chashme chadha liye ki sabko dekhe ye chaira
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: hasta hua Ruki ni saase to chal pada fir aur
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: kandho pe baste utha liye Duniya kumariye mai bhi kamaal
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: hu dekho na ghoomte jaara hu Ki toote na himmat
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: isliye tasweer ko maa ki mai choomte jaara hu Mili
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: na manzil to chal pada mandir ko socha bhagwaan milenge
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: jo pehle se andar hai mujh me basa hua Mai
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: usko hi dhoonte jaara hu Hai garga wo chota jo
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: kandho pe zimmedari badi leke chala hai Jab betha wo
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: chhaon me utare chute tab jana wo kitna chala hai
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: He just knows that if you do good, then good
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: will happen. History is a witness that the one who
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: shares and eats, gets only less from God. The family
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: members also remember that they don't want to go home.
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: When they are hungry, they sleep on the bed, but
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: they don't dream. There is dust on the face of
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: those whose mirrors are clean.
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  Speaker 2: They fill their stomachs more than hunger.
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  Speaker 5: Jo aksar hi maang ke khaate hain Toota hai dil,
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  Speaker 5: toota hu main Par fir bhi sab roos sambala hai
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  Speaker 5: Kush na kuch kam hi bada hai Jabse zindagi mein
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: hosh sambala hai Likhi hai upar wale ne Zindagi hai ya,
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: moot ki saza Moot hi hogi shayad.
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  Speaker 2: Kyunki kalam ko apni wo toorne wala hai.
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  Speaker 27: I don't feel like I'm a foreigner. I walk to
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  Speaker 27: every corner of my home. Why are you away from me?
• 58:55
  Speaker 27: Why are you away from my dreams? dreams have been
• 59:14
  Speaker 27: sent from faraway countries.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for watching.