We at Indian Music Talks take great pleasure in announcing that our revamped website (www.indianmusictalks.com) is now in place. As in any creative effort there is always scope for innovation and by next month we expect to add some more interesting  features to our website. We hope to make it a point of convergence for the entire Music Industry to interact, collaborate and innovate. Together we can make strides that will carry us forward in these challenging times.

Gone are the days when the Industry could complacently sit and bask in its own glory. Today the Industry's very foundation has been shaken by the body blow that technology and piracy has handed it. The time has come now to put our heads together, pool in ideas and resources, and find solutions that will consolidate the Industry.

Indian Music Talks  is the official website of the IMI - Indian Music Industry (www.indianmi.org), which was established in 1936 as the Indian Phonographic Industry (IPI). Rechristened as IMI (Indian Music Industry) in 1994, it is the second oldest music companies' association in the world and affiliated to IFPI - International Federation of Phonographic Industry (www.ifpi.org), UK, a representative body that looks after the interests of the music industry worldwide.

We hope people at every level in the Music Industry, will find in Indian Music Talks, the common platform they have needed, where they can express their views and be heard. If we are to survive, people from every aspect of the Industry, whether they are creative artists, production houses, music companies, event companies, studios, replicators or marketing/PR agencies, they must all cease to think of themselves as being small collectives and combine to form a much bigger pool - a cultural commons.

Last month we introduced the ‘Guest Column’, where we invited members of the music fraternity to share their views and experiences in everything related to Music and the Music Industry. We hope this initiative will evoke the positive optimism required to stir the Music Industry out of its despondency.

- Savio D’Souza