About Ahimsa

U2 wrapped up their Joshua Tree 2019 tour with their first-ever show in India at Mumai’s D.Y. Patil Stadium on Sunday evening. It was largely a standard Joshua Tree show until the encore section when Indian musical icon A. R. Rahman and his daughters joined the band to perform “Ahimsa”, a song he wrote and recorded with the band earlier this year. “Included in this country are women, the most precious and rarest potential talent that we have,” Bono told the crowd, “and it’s 50 percent of this stadium. And we say, ‘Thank you for your patience in dealing with us men.’ Beyond singular figures and women and men, left and right, all religious groupings, work together for change. That’s how we get things going. That’s how we change the world. You, India, are the inspiration for this next song, which we have never played before. A song about the most powerful force in history, India’s greatest gift to the world, ahimsa.”