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The setup Sid is learning to sing. And his choice of music is the Indian classical form, Carnatic music. Neither myself nor my wife understand or spend enough time listening to Carnatic music. Its not that we don't like it, it just never was a goto. After all, there is enough and some more of film music to fall back on for most of our purposes. Around the time my wife was pregnant with Sid, we started having a playlist of devotional songs in the morning. Again, we are not religious enough to do this. We both agreed that this kind of music might be a good way to start the day, especially given the number of things stressing us out back then. And around the time Sid was under a year old, we found a nice album from Chitti Babu ( a renowned veena player ) which was very interesting to listen to. And we noticed a pattern that Sid always responded positively to that album. He would generally be less cranky when this album was playing. To his credit, though, he was never that cranky anyway. ...