![]() ![]() ![]() “If women do anything that’s a little bit outside of the box, everyone freaks out,” she notes. She then recounts how she went on to YouTube, and dealing with criticism online. It was here that she began to blend Indian music with Western pop songs and began her signature mashups. In Mumbai, Vidya says she was able to embrace her Indian-ness, and immersed herself in music. Her mother supported her. And it was here that she unlearned that her Indian heritage and the violence she experienced at home were not universally intertwined. Vidya comes back to her musical journey… How she decided not to go to medical school, but pursue music, for which she came to Mumbai. “When my mom escaped my dad, my music teacher refused to teach me,” she says. ![]() Vidya further sheds light on the stigma around separation from a spouse in the Indian society, especially for women. Her mother finally ran away with her children when Vidya was 16 because of the abuse. ![]()
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