# Acknowledgements

This free course was prepared by Suresh Nesaratnam and Senathirajah Muthaiya. It was first published in July 2021.

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## Images/Tables

Course Image: © sabirmallick/Getty Images

Figure 1: sodabottle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mangulam_inscription.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Figure 2: planeMad/Wikimedia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_Tamil_Nadu_locator_map.svg

Figure 3: madpai https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil_Family.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Figure 4: VSanandhakrishna/Getty Images

Figure 5: Left: The Goddess Saraswathi, the provider of knowledge; Right: The Goddess Lakshmi, the provider of wealth. © unknown

Figure 6: https://www.utkaltoday.com/mullu-murukku-recipe/

Figure 7: ghatam: Sven.petersen placed in public domain; cymbals: bayshev/Getty Images; nadaswaram: By Rahdisas - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=92503798; violin: yarn/Getty Images; harmonium: ajaykampani/Getty Images; thambura: Martin Spaink https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; khanjira: image: brian@silverbushmusic.com https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; flute: Kanags https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; sruthi: image from https://www.shrutibox.co.uk; mridangam: © unknown; morsing: © unknown; thavil: image from https://saraswathymusicals.com/thavil/ ; veena: Veena.svg: Sreejithk2000 derivative work: Gringer (talk) - Veena.svg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Table 6 and Activity 7: Papaya: varintorn/Pixabay; Jackfruit: lilimey /Pixabay; Wood Apple: (c) unknown; Jambu: https://www.bfnsrilanka.org/; Nungu: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

Activity 8: top image: Nadaswaram: Gwengoat/Getty Images; second image: ghatam: Sven.petersen placed in public domain; third image: harmonium: ajaykampani/Getty Images; bottom image: thavil: image from https://saraswathymusicals.com/thavil/

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