In one of those large apartments typical of the bourgeois areas, the living-room floor has been cleared. The man nods at everyone, speaks a few words, and picks up a string instrument that resembles a dotara. “We lived in an apartment building in the early 80s, in West Berlin, where the Dagar brothers were also staying. The two track-lines produce quite different sounds but neither emits the howling whistle one associates with night trains. While Delhi and Vermont flooded, while Greece and Sicily burned, I found myself on an island of perfect rain-music.

Source: The Telegraph July 25, 2023 11:44 UTC