KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (The Star/ANN) -- History lingers through Ilham Gallery's The Plantation Plot exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, not only in paintings, installations and photographs, but also in song.

MAKKAL OSAI has started a fundraising effort to support a documentary based on the folk songs collection put together by the late scholar and writer Dr R. Dhandayudham. The former lecturer at the ...

Here’s something special for the weekend — a beautiful crowdfunding project that weaves history, memory, and community into song. Araro Ariraro is a musical documentary that revives forgotten Tamil ...

*As dusk descends on Pulicat Lake—a large saltwater lagoon on the border of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in South India—Isaivani starts singing a rousing “gaana” song. She is the only female singer ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessed a musical performance dedicated to the holy river Ganga upon his arrival at a hotel in Johannesburg. Tamil folk singer, Kumari Ambigay, who sang a song dedicated ...

‘Araro Ariraro’ is a feature-length musical documentary about Indian indentured labourers working in Malaya’s British colonial plantations. (M S Nakajima pic) It is believed that from as early as the ...