"My veena has been an object of amusement with people wherever I go," says V. S. Rangara jan who plays on a miniature two-ft instrument. The frets on which you play actually stretch to a length of less than a foot, says the artiste. 

For Rangarajan, "it was almost a gift from a temple Goddess in Mylapore." "A reg ular at the Kesava Perumal temple during the late Seventies,