PLAYING ON A LOOP

rowing up in the capital city of Regina in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, Tesher (Hitesh Sharma) was acutely aware of his cultural identity way before his civic identity. His proud Indian parents wouldn’t tone down their Indianness, regardless of how the world outside responded to it. “Indian culture, in this way, became omnipresent,” says the 22-year-old musician. “My father was a Bhangra teacher, so that was a blessing, too. I was always performing in festivals