Like all middle-class Tamil children, I was also forced to learn classical music and dance. Thankfully, my parents did not press on with the dance classes (given all the expenses it involved) but my mom remained firm in her resolve to put me through Carnatic Music classes.
In the last post, I described some African blogs to keep track of for stalking information about Africa. Here are some of my favourite places online for listening to African news and music and a list of books I liked.
The best part of African culture is the music. I stumble upon some amazing bands through these podcasts:
For the last two years, my secondary interest (apart from web design and illustrations) has been the African continent. I do not know where this interest came from. I suspect it must have been after reading No. 1 Ladies’s Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith.
I had long been fascinated with all things African. It is the only continent where you hear more about genocides than any actual development. It is quite unfair because there are actually peaceful nations in Africa and a lot of creative development goes on there because of the poor infrastructure of many nations.