An Open Letter to Yo Yo Honey Singh is a 3.5-minute rap video featuring Rene Sharanya Verma, a student of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, performing at Café Zingo Star in Greater Kailash-II organised by Delhi Poetry Slam, an initiative that aims to "restore the art of spoken word into the everyday culture of the Capital".
[2] Honey Singh is an Indian rapper whose work has been perceived as being vulgar, misogynist, promoting violence against women and a bad influence on youth.
Verma said in an interview that on initially hearing Singh's "Blue Eyes" it "hooked" her, but that when she "paid attention to the lyrics" she realized they were "very problematic".
[15] Subsequently the video of another work of hers received over 180,000 hits on YouTube and was the subject of media attention,[16][17][18] in which she was described as someone who had confronted Singh,[19] and "slamming"[20] and "knocking the wind out of" him.
[21] She was featured on The Arts Hour for the BBC World Service presented by Nikki Bedi, with her rap number "Reclaim the night".