India, May 4 -- How many of the younger generation are familiar with the magic of the gramophone? For most of them-and rightly so-it is a collectible antique, to be used for display. But very hazily, as a child I remember that gramophones were the magic that allowed you access to music apart from the radio. My mother had one, and it was still in use when I was born, mostly by my elder sisters. The machine consisted of a simple turn table, a sound system, inbuilt or enhanced through that wonderfully shaped tulip-like speaker that ballooned out of the machine, popularised for later generations by the logo of the HMV label. Then, all one had to do was to place the 78 RPM (revolutions per minute) record on the turntable, put the handle on it,...