BANGALORE - When the Indian government announced the lockdown last month, Mr Manimaran, a musician in Chennai, knew that hard times lay ahead.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGALORE - When the Indian government announced the lockdown last month, Mr Manimaran, a musician in Chennai, knew that hard times lay ahead.
After folk artists he had collaborated with told him of their struggles, Carnatic musician TM Krishna decided to help. Mr Krishna set up a Covid-19 Artists Fund. And to raise money, he live-streamed a shut-in concert on March 29, along with classical violinist Akkarai Subhalakshmi, mridangist B Sivaraman and ghatam player N Guruprasad.
In the past month alone, the Covid-19 Artists Fund disbursed about 3.2 million rupees to about 1000 artists, mostly across Tamil Nadu but also in a few pockets in the rest of south India. Typically, it transfers 2000 to 4000 rupees as an emergency fund directly to the artist's bank account. Mr Dharani, a theatre actor, discovered hundreds of stressed Koothu artists who won't get to perform their all-night street theatre this season.
Even after the lockdown is lifted, physical distancing norms and a weakened economy are bound to impact artists.
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