One of the highlights from Taylor Swift’s Eras tour was the presence of four sign language interpreters on stage. Such was the performance that one of them, Jill Deaton, received a standing ovation during the show in Dublin. With India growing as a destination for international music artistes, accessibility has become a talking point for music fans and organisers equally.

Last month, at an Alan Walker concert held in an open-air venue in Bandra Kurla Complex, fan and accessibility advocate Virali Modi found herself struggling to navigate the venue in her wheelchair. “There were several points where gravel was carpeted over, obstructing my wheelchair. By the time we made it in, we [Modi and her partner] were exhausted,” she says. Though the organisers sought to fix it, it is an example of the problems that differently-abled fans want to be addressed.