"I’m happy that the award is coming from a non-corporate platform. The award is named after T. M. Krishna who is not just a singer but an activist singer who is questioning the Brahmanical upper caste hegemony in music and using language as a tool for social change. PARI is the platform that speaks of rural people whose stories are mostly ignored by so-called mainstream platforms. And I’m deeply inspired by the works of P. Sainath, the founder of PARI."

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