A five-year-old struggles to lift his drum, despite the one kilo instrument being too heavy for his little hands. Nearby, a woman slings it across her shoulder, keeping a sharp eye on her baby, asleep ...

“When you hear the beat of the parai and are instantly jolted to move, it isn’t you, but your ancestors dancing inside you,” says parai artist and teacher Manimaran. For the last two decades, ...

Sound Mani, who performed at the Dubai 2022 Expo, is fascinated by all kinds of ancient Tamil acoustics, and in particular, parai. The expo, which had around 243 pavilions, provided Mani with the ...

The Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America (FeTNA) is a popular haunt for NRI Tamils to revisit their roots, celebrate the performing arts traditions of their homeland, and find a sense of ...

Music is thousands of years old and it should reach everyone in the younger generation,” says Chinnavedampatti-based M Prabhagaran, who has mastered the parai, an ancient musical instrument of Tamil ...

Perarivalan plays the parai (a percussion instrument) at his home in Jolarpettai in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupattur district on Wednesday. PTI Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict A.G. Perarivalan on ...

CHENNAI: Around 75 men, women and transgenders, lost in the concordant beats emanating from a percussion instrument hanging on their shoulders walk in a circle closely following the movements of their ...

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict A G Perarivalan on Wednesday celebrated the Supreme Court verdict directing his release by playing the Tamil percussion instrument 'Parai' and now wants to ...

When software professional and parai music trainer V Shakthi launched Team Nimirvu Kalaiyagam (TNK) in Coimbatore in 2011, his mission was not just to safeguard the traditional folk dance parai attam, ...