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Anurag Tagat

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As seen in: Rolling Stone India, MSN India, Red Bull, Red Bull India, Variety, Billboard, Chron, Firstpost, Flipboard, Mint, The Hindu and
Covers:  Music, pop culture, technology, film
Doesn't Cover: Politics, Finance, Business
Journalist/Critic @RollingStoneIN, @the_hindu, @RedBullindia. It's called an epiphany.

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Anurag Tagat’s Biography

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I write about music (mostly!), film, graphic novels, internet culture and technology for print and web.

I am the assistant editor for Rolling Stone India. I also write for The Hindu Metroplus and Red Bull India. My work has so far appeared in publications such as Billboard, Rolling Stone Japan, The Caravan, HT Mint Lounge, Rock Street Journal, Askmen India and more.

While studying MA Journalism at Goldsmiths College, University of London, I have also written for local news website EastLondonLin…

Anurag Tagat’s Journalist Portfolio

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Lollapalooza India | Mercury rising with Imagine Dragons

Lollapalooza India | Mercury rising with Imagine Dragons

As India's first multi-day global festival post pandemic gears up, its genre-hopping headliners discuss their…

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Making sense of the Darshan Raval phenomenon

Making sense of the Darshan Raval phenomenon

Darshan Raval calls YouTube his BFF. It isn't far-fetched - in the four years that the singer, and India's ri…

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Two Weeks After Launch, a Look at Spotify India's Most-Streamed Local Artists

Two Weeks After Launch, a Look at Spotify India's Most-Streamed Local Artists

A week after Spotify finally launched in India on Feb. 26, the company published a chart of the 10 top-stream…

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Diaspora hip hop: After Heems, a look at the new league of desi artists making waves

Diaspora hip hop: After Heems, a look at the new league of desi artists making waves

While desi hip hop - in all its multilingual hues and varied moods, from political to self-portraiture - has …

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Coven Code: Taking back the nightclub

Coven Code: Taking back the nightclub

If you need proof that gender imbalance exists in the music industry, here is one: all ofForbes2018's 10 rich…

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Headbangers' Ball

Headbangers' Ball

Last month, the rockers of Hyderabad-based death/ thrash metal band Godless scored a trip to Germany for the …

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Articles

Sheetal Menon’s Short Film ‘Duet,’ Produced by Bejoy Nambiar, To Stream on Spotify

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By Anurag Tagat Verified
| Rolling Stone India Verified
The film, co-written by Menon and Arpita Chatterjee and starring Sidhant Gupta, focuses on the grief of a musician after the sudden loss of his estranged brother Behind the scenes of making of 'Duet,' with actor Siddhant Gupta (extreme left) and filmmaker Sheetal Menon (center).
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JBABE Set Himself on Fire for His Music, But He’s Far from Burnt Out

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By Anurag Tagat Verified
| Rolling Stone India Verified
Towards the end of Chennai artist JBABE’s short film for his new album A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe, as the song “Days I Will Endure” comes on, Joshua Fernandez lights a cigarette and sets himself ablaze in what is a shockingly apt moment for a slow-burning song to kick in. He moves a little cautiously but also with a sense of abandonment for at least a minute and a half before the flames are put out by his crew, which includes filmmaker and longtime collaborator Lendrick Kumar.
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Ikka, Banjaare, Shreyas and All The New Songs to Know This Week

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Welcome to our weekly rundown of new music – featuring must-hear singles, statement-making EPs and albums and key tracks. This week offers new hip-hop from stalwarts like Ikka and his new EP Enigma 2 Icon, and Shreyas Sagvekar returns to English material alongside his better-known Marathi rap on his EP M.I.A. with DJ-producer Joshua Kandy.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Intern on the city beat, covering protests

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Nope

How is social media changing news?

It's trying to individualize news, while retaining a larger narrative