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The Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet is a festival of art and literature for bibliophiles across the city and around which is held every year. The tenth volume of the event is set to take place from January 21st to 26th, 2023 at six venues in Kolkata. The first venue is located at East Gate Kalam Lawn, Victoria Memorial Hall, the second venue is at Western Quadrangle, Victoria Memorial Hall, the third venue is at Main Steps, Victoria Memorial Hall, the fourth venue is at Skinny Mo's Jazz Club, the fifth venue is at GD Birla Sabhaghar and the sixth venue is The Bengal Club.  Kolkata Lit Meet is presented by Tata Steel in association with Exide, Greenply, EMTA Group Of Companies, WealthApp and Aashirvaad Svasti Easy Digest Milk as the principal partners,  Barrel Select as the film partner, The Telegraph as the media partner, Arun Sign as the outdoor partner, Taj Bengal Kolkata as the hospitality partner and organised and created by Gameplan.  One can go to meet and greet au...

The Soul Local is an initiative by a media & marketing company named Calcutta Cacophony which celebrates the flavours of West Bengal's capital city which we more often call, The City Of Joy, for the past three years with popular culture and expertise from the city's independent scene. This year, The Soul Local is set to celebrate the Yuletide spirit with music, games, flea market, food and Cosplay carnival.  The venue for the two-day event, 24th and 25th December, 2022, is Gitanjali Stadium, Kolkata. The lineup includes Underground Authority , Indian Ocean , Arko Mukherjee , Fossils and Anjan Dutt . The event partners include Smoke Inc. as the Co-partner, JamSteady as the associate partner, Pikturenama as the outreach partner, Play House as the youth partner, Make Calcutta Relevant Again, Saday as the creative partner, Paytm Insider as the ticketing partner, Pixelvise as the Website Design partner,  Foodoo's Reunion Cafe as Snack partner, Ishq 104.8 FM as the Radio...

  The International Indie Music Festival is a five-day multi-genre concert tour Organised by Jay N Pillai in association with Lazie Indie Music Magazine (an international publication on Indie Music)  at  Kerala Arts and Crafts Village, Thiruvananthapuram, India, which is considered to be the first ever international independent music festival ever happening in India comprising a total of nineteen artists from all over the globe. The event 5 place from 9th to 13th of November, 2022. The line-up was Oorali (Reggae,India), Roc Flowers (Hip Hop, Italy) and Anslom (Reggae, Papua New Guinea) on Day 1, Chandana Rajesh (Pop, India), Thamarassery Churam (Hard Rock, India), Job Kurian (Malayalam Rock, India) and Sami Chohfi (Rock, USA) on Day 2, RCleff, Lyia Meta (Blues Rock/Hard Rock/Metal, Malaysia), When Chai Met Toast (Folk Fusion, India) and Sherise (Pop, India) on Day 3, Chaos (Heavy Metal, India) , Inner Sanctum (Thrash Metal, India), Rudra (Vedic Metal, Singapore) and Agam ...

Th e Indian Open Air is an indigenous Guwahati-based Open-Air concert tour organized by Rockarolla Events, Urban Mantra & E365 Group of Companies at Jonki Panoi Khetra, Guwahati on 27th of November, this year. The lineup consists of DJ James (02:00 P.M. to 03:00 P.M. in the first slot and 7:25 P.M. to 7:50 P.M. in the second slot), Flying Cupid ( 03:00 P.M. to 03:30 P.M.), Serpents Of Pakhangba ( 03:45 P.M. to 04:15 P.M.), Voodoo Child (4:30 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.), Girish And The Chronicles (5:15 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.), Trance Effect (6:30 P.M. to 07:15 P.M.) and Michael Learns To Rock, the Headliner which is conducting it's Back On The Road Tour, 2022 (8:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.). The online tickets are available for ₹1500/- onwards on Paytm Insider.  The offline ticket counters are available in the following venues : Urban Mantra (Zoo Road and Six Mile), Quick Shoppe (Nursery,City Centre Mall and Dighali Pukhuri), 11th Avenue (Dighali Pukhuri and Six Mile), Game Cave (Bora Service), J1...

Parx Music Fiesta is an event organized by Hrishikesh Kannan which usually involves a musical contest, a band battle for independent underground musicians from the country. The fest took place at Raymond Ground, Thane in Mumbai on 19th and 20th November, this year. The artist line up included HP14 (01:00 p.m.),Panic (01:30 p.m.), Skulptr (02:00 p.m.), White Vinyl (02:30 p.m.), Swarathma (03:00 p.m.) ,Indian Ocean(04:00 p.m.) ,Underground authority X Nikitha Gandhi (05:30 p.m.) ,Benny Dayal (07:00 p.m) and Salim-Sulaiman(08:30 p.m.) on 19th (Saturday) and Daira (02:45 p.m.), Parvaaz (03:45 p.m.), When Chai Met Toast (04:45 p.m.), Euphoria (05:45 p.m.), Papon (07:00 p.m.) and Amit Trivedi (08:30 p.m.) on 20th (Sunday).  The winners of the band contest included Panic (East-Zone), White Vinyl (West Zone), The HP14 (North Zone) and Skulptr (South Zone).  The beverage partner for the event was Asia's and India's first meadery, Moonshine. There was also an arrangement for easy means...

As 2k22 is slowly drawing to an end and it's November already, it's probably time to turn back in time and let our hair down to vibe to the independent music releases that kept coming in throughout the year. Soon after the pandemic took a back seat and things limped back to normalcy. It's that time of the year, when there's a nip in the air, the time to wrap ourselves up in the coziness of our warm rooms and let music consume all negativities away. Well, so let's talk about some of the top Indian independent artists who are putting relentless efforts to help the scene grow in the best way possible. Therefore, diving straight into the topic!  1)  ANUV JAIN :  An Indian-Indie singer-songwriter who is a twenty-seven year old Ludhiana guy who took over the hearts of music lovers across India with his songs : Gul, Baarishein, Alag Aasmaan, Riha, Maula, Meri Baaton Mein Tu and others, with over 33Lakh monthly listeners on Spotify and over 534K followers on Instagram. He r...