Listeners of The Radio Quarantine can expect the mic to fall at times or the fan might be too loud. It's a raw set-up, but what you will get is some great music and wonderful insights from our guests," promises Bangalore-based artiste and teacher Yashas Shetty about the daily Internet radio show that he started from March 25. Twenty-one days in, the show has been belting out tracks cutting across genres — from Japanese new-age composers to pop songs in Kannada, Hindi and English — and opening up conversations on everything under the sun — from dreaming of another world after the lockdown to memories of the Black Plague.

The idea to go live from his "dining table" at 9 pm was something that started off as a means of sharing music, says Shetty, who admits that he's no radio host. "Music and sound can really have things to say to get us through times like these," he adds. The preview for each show is posted on the Instagram page of Indian Sonic Research Organisation, a collective of people making experimental music and building their own instruments in Bangalore. Every show has a theme; for instance, day four was about solidarity, and Shetty had political activist Kavita Krishnan talk about migrant workers having to walk back to their homes. On another day, it was isolation; so Shetty played music written by composers like Beethoven and Joy Division, along with a chat with author Arshia Sattar and musician Abhijeet Tambe.