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 ...

“Parai, which was the most important communication tool of humankind, over the years, was restricted to a particular caste,” said Parai artiste and Padma Shri awardee Velu Aasan. He spoke at the prize ...

With a number of workshops being conducted in the city and youngsters coming forward to learn the instrument with gusto With a number of workshops being conducted in the city and youngsters coming ...

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 ...

On weekends, the premises of Tamil College in Perur comes alive to the beats of the traditional music instrument, Parai. At the helm of affairs is V Sakthi, founder of Nimirvu Kalaiyagam, a group ...

“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, ...

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 ...

At one of the Black Lives Matter meets in Australia to protest the killing of George Floyd, a man was seen playing the grand-old Tamilian drum, encircled by an energetic group who were egging him on ...