Well, it is school. Extra time for safety-pinning your sari and braiding your hair. It feels refreshingly wrong to juxtapose cell phones with the sitar.
Vocal students sit cross-legged on cushions, slapping a hand against their thighs to keep time.
Instructor and school founder Anuradha Suresh encourages them to sit straight and sing straight to Auntie. The swishing of saris. The jingles of jewelry. I need those diamonds. I see no diamonds.