Paattu Pusthakam

My daughter is learning Carnatic vocal music. While the music itself is rich and well taught, I noticed friction in the surrounding aspects of practice — lyrics and audio references.

• Lyrics often exist in many subtle variants, forcing students (or parents and grandparents) to manually write down the exact version being taught.
• Audio references, usually shared over WhatsApp, are hard to rediscover months later unless they’re carefully tagged and saved.

This creates unnecessary dependency on mobile phones, distractions, and messaging apps.

To simplify this, I built Paattu Pusthakam — a static site that serves as a single source of truth for students of this academy.

• A simple Hugo-based site listing songs
• Searchable content
• Embedded audio playback via shortcodes
• Language toggle (English, Tamil)

The goal is to reduce friction, improve focus, and let students spend more time practicing music and less time searching for resources.