Music --- Indian v/s International

I again get back to writing on Music. This is THE topic which interests me a lot and which interests me most.

The main reason of the Title is the things I have faced this situation a lot now. Its definitely true that I am overtly obsessed with the Indian Music specially Bollywood, but there is a point which I would like to put by writing about the Title I've chosen.

We go malls, cafes, restaurants, hotels in lodges and many other places, excluding pubs and related places, and we find only and only International music played everywhere unanimously. But have we ever thought why it is has become THE only obvious choice? Even though they play every genre of International music but do everyone enjoy it? There are many many people who definitely like to hum or tap to many of the Indian music, not only Bollywood but many others like classical fusion, regional and many others.

Can some people not change this and be an ideal to others and show even Indian music sells. We do have a lot of genre here, I do not want to list it coz the list is endless and I am sure I can list every single genre. I have not seen a single cafe playing Indian music, though some restaurants do play. I would definitely prefer going to them coz there atleast I can even enjoy the food.

The reason to write on this topic was my recent visit to Gurgaon and the lodge where I stayed for a week. The cafeteria which the lodge has played only and only International music. Every night during dinner I listened only these. I agree there were foreign visitors in the lodge who stayed there and this was probably for them which may be relaxing to them. But c'mon do we not have the responsibility of projecting ourself to them when we are host them? We meant Indians. We can show them that we have a vivid variety of music and which is THE TREASURE we can boast off.

We can present some melodious fusion music and who knows they may even like it. There are many who would like to explore our music. Will they not like it?

Unable to hold my emotion before leaving the hotel while checking-out I made it a point to give this as my comment on their feedback form and immediately the front desk person was at it and reacted to the comment saying "Sir would you like Indian music?".

Hope they consider my comment and if I happen to again I would like to go and see if they consider the comments made or is it just a formality. And I vow to give this comment and suggest people and make them aware of this wherever and whenever possible. This is possible, for sure, but this requires a bit of change of vision nothing else. There can be a mix of both the music. I am not against it completely. I, for sure, do not like it at all, but will definitely support it but will expect the same enthusiasm for our own music too.