It seems like there's no stopping the recent wave of hip-hop, a tsunami of sorts, that's washed over the Indian indie music scene. Young rappers are surfacing in places as far off as Amravati in easterm Maharashtra. Musicians are incorporating all kinds of regional dialects and languages into the genre. There's a wide-ranging demographic of participants, from DJs to live rappers to B-boys and graffiti artistes. And the one place that we have to thank for all this is The Bronx in New York City, where the global hip-hop movement was born in the 1970s.

Vivek Dudani