Music on the streets of Mylapore: Why Carnatic vocalist Saketharaman is celebrating an age-old tradition

[ad_1] Narada gets off his father’s scooter, and high-fives Andal. It’s exactly 6 a.m. at Mada Street in Chennai’s Mylapore, and school children dressed as various mythological characters are getting ready to perform. Popular Carnatic vocalist Saketharaman gives them the cue, and the group begins walking along the road, singing ‘Margazhi Thingal’, a verse from […]

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Couple who just returned from US murdered by driver in Mylapore

[ad_1] A couple who just returned from the U.S. on Saturday morning after visiting their daughter were allegedly murdered by their driver-cum-domestic aide in Mylapore. Their bodies were buried in a house near Mamallapuram. The police nabbed the accused from Ongole in Andhra Pradesh. The police said the victims have been identified as Srikanth, 58, […]

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