“Music should speak of the times. My music does talk to what’s happening now,” Ajudha tells BBC Culture. “A contemporary artist should be writing about what’s going on the world, because that’s a marker of history; you can’t erase a song that people love. So much of history is erased, but pop music is subversive; it does bring people together to create change.
“When I went to university, and I studied gender, anthropology and contemporary trends in society, being emboldened by the knowledge of incredible writers and thinkers made me realise what I wanted to write about and sing about: that…
