With Judith Durham's passing, the carnival is truly over (Obituary)

New Delhi, Aug 7 For a teenager in the early 1960s, the only access to Western pop music was through two weekly programmes on All India Radio and one wondered why "The Carnival Is Over" invariably featured on both of them week after week.

One soon came to realise that this was so because heartbreak was as integral to life as eating and breathing.

Still, one pondered over the lyrics, delivered with much feeling by the dulcet-voiced singer-songwriter-musician Judith Durham

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