The eerie silence of the narrow Madathu Theru (street) in Mathirimangalam, in the Mayiladuthurai district, is suddenly broken by the delicate strains of a violin. Ninety-one-year-old Meenakshi ...

For 35 years, O.S. Arun has been a professional singer of Carnatic music, a classical genre popular in South India. It's an embellished form of singing frequently backed by the tanpura, a long-necked, ...

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