Dispatch from Puducherry, India | Songlines
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Dispatch from Puducherry, India

By Daniel Spicer

Daniel Spicer heads to the Bay of Bengal in search of Carnatic music’s “true voice of the Indian soul”

Raghunath Manet

Raghunath Manet

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