When a Tamil speaker exclaims “Sabaash!” to celebrate an act worthy of applause, she is reaching back through a very specific chain of history. The word, a contraction of the Persian shād bāsh – “be ...
As the musical legacy of Swathi Thirunal continues to be celebrated, composer-singer M Jayachandran has taken up an ambitious project — ‘Swathi’s Manipravalam’, an 18-song series on the ...