Indian singers labelled traitors

TRADITIONAL Indian singers have been attacked for performing songs about Jesus and Allah, as Right-wing Hindu groups labelled them “traitors” to their faith.

Balladeers of the Carnatic tradition – a south Indian musical style originally performed by Hindu mystics since the 17th-century – were threatened after two leading exponents of the craft took part in interfaith events.

TM Krishna and OS Arun were targeted by fringe Hindu groups after the first tweeted that he would expand his range of religious songs to include odes to other faiths, while the second was accused of “collaborating with a stooge of the Vatican” after announcing he would perform at a concert organised by a Christian group in Chennai.