Somewhere along the way, we started seeing our own culture as uncool. while the west is remixing our music, wearing our jewellery, sampling our colours, wearing our kolhapuri chappals on runways, putting 'Indian aesthetics' on moodboards - we're still second guessing it.

They're proud to borrow it. We're hesitant to own it and in that hesitation, we narrowed ourselves. Forgot that loving many sounds, many influences, many cultures was never a betrayal - it was the point.

Faaludda exists in the middle - where different sounds share the same floor, and everyone belongs without trying to fit in.