Tamil Nadu: Drumming up support for parai

In 1993, Zoe C Sherinian arrived at the Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary (TTS) in Arasaradi, Madurai, to study the Carnatic Christian kirtanai. Then a student of ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University in the US, Sherinian didn’t know that her encounter with theologian Theophilus Appavoo at TTS and his work on dalit emancipation would commence a lifelong journey of comradeship, politics and activism.

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