Why are we not concert ready?
Mint Kolkata|December 21, 2024
Infrastructure in India hasn't kept pace with the cultural explosion. Maybe we need to get creative
Shrabonti Bagchi

A little more than a year ago, I had written about the debacle that was the Trevor Noah show in Bengaluru—if you can call a show a show if it never happened. The venue failed a basic sound check after the audience had been seated and the barely audible opening act had been performed. As I had written at the time, there were failures at multiple levels that led to this embarrassing moment for everyone concerned—from the organisers to Noah's team to the owners of the "auditorium" (in reality a trade show venue).

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