As winter settles in on Bengaluru, the city begins to sound different. Carol services, festive concerts and community gatherings bring with them the familiar warmth of choral music — a tradition that ...

Ghulam Haider, Allah Ditta and Mohammad Bakhsh — all past 90, sat on a cracked mud platform beneath a single bulb. They began after maghrib [sunset] and finished only at the fajr azaan [call to prayer ...