Prof. Damodaran gave examples of how music has been used to articulate resistance during the struggle for freedom from colonial subjugation and how later, after independence, the tradition has continued in different parts of the country. She performed popular songs from the 1940s to the present that have voiced resistance to the existing social and political order. With a repertoire in multiple languages, she explored the aesthetic as well as the political-social dimensions of the music of resistance in our country and also situated it in terms of the influences that have been pivotal in the emergence of the music.