Music without barriers

One would imagine an apt way to describe UK based musician Nitin Sawhney would be to call him an exponential talent in world music. Except that there’s a slight problem — Nitin despises the term “world music”. Explaining his resentment towards the term “world music”, the third time TED speaker says, “It’s a stupid, condescending term, designed to marginalise people. It’s about a cultural apartheid, which often lumps in together everything the Western media finds difficult to absorb, because of the innate racism.” A large part of creating music has got to do with losing ego, Nitin says.