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Local residents have held candlelight marches to protest the night-long sound pollution that is disrupting their lives and harming their health.

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· Aug 21, 2024 · 06:30 am
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· Apr 27, 2022 · 07:00 pm
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· Apr 07, 2020 · 08:30 am

Are Ganesh mandals in Maharashtra behind a nationwide dilution of noise pollution norms?

Festival organisers are cheering as the state has said that after the August 10 amendment of the rules, there are no silence zones.

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· Aug 22, 2017 · 10:30 am
‘A lifelong dream’: Oscar-winning Resul Pookutty records Kerala’s grand temple festival sounds

The award-winning sound designer is part of a project to make a documentary on the grand Thrissur Pooram.

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· May 05, 2017 · 04:24 pm
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· Nov 06, 2016 · 02:30 pm

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Sound Check

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