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    Notes from a Village

    Apr 08, 2020 4 minutes
    SUMANA RAMANAN

    Prahlad Gaikwad, a sugarcane farmer from Wathar village, in Maharashtra’s Satara district, woke up excited on the morning of 19 October 2019. He drove for about two hours to the village of Aundh, reaching just in time for the first recital of its annual festival of Hindustani classical music.

    Now in his eighties, Gaikwad has attended the Aundh Sangeet Mahotsav for the past 15 years, ever since he moved back to his native village from Mumbai, where he had worked in a cotton mill for several decades. Every year, he has sat through the entire 24-hour festival, which begins in the morning a week before Diwali and ends at dawn the following day. “I want to take in all the musical fragrances,

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