A cultural loss of authority

How often do you hear the question ‘who sung this song?’ compared to a more precious ‘who wrote this song?’? The answer is quite obvious…

Words matter. Who said them matters more. [Photo by Moritz Schmidt on Unsplash]

How often do you hear the question ‘who sung this song?’ compared to a more precious ‘who wrote this song?’? The answer is quite obvious at least from a subcontinental perspective. The cardinal truth is that we, the desis of the world, don’t really bother ourselves with the o…