According to Sumana Chandrashekar's guru, ghatam ‘grows up’ in the company that embodies certain qualities of women, like resilience, strength and vulnerability.
In the book, Songs of the Clay Pot: My Journey With Ghatam, Sumana Chandrasekar talks about those issues that we ponder about when we consider women and percussion.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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