A Songline in the Elephant Hills
Earthly Rhythms, Cadence, and the Silencing of a Rainforest Landscape
Words By Divya Mudappa and T. R. Shankar Raman
(This article first appeared on Coonoor&Co on 8 May 2025.)
Rainforest Canopy; Photo by Kalyan Varma (CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)Morning with whistling-thrush song in the Anamalai Hills
“… A musical phrase is a map reference… Music is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.”
~ paraphrased from Songlines (1987) by Bruce Chatwin
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