He pressed play.
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His father, a retired school music teacher, used to hum a particular tune every evening after tea. It had no lyrics, no meter. Just a wandering, melancholic rise and fall on the harmonium’s keys. “It’s a song that never found its lines,” his father would say. “ Sangathil padatha kavithai —a poem that won’t fit into a tune.” He pressed play
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