From ‘Old Friend’ to SoundGarden: Shakthisree Gopalan on music, mental health and creativity

It was during the lockdown in 2020 that Shakthisree Gopalan put pen to paper for a song. On a particularly uneventful day – the kind that makes you question where life is headed and revisit certain incidents – the singer-songwriter penned this line, “Why should I pay a price to be myself when the world is going mad?”