As textbook, each participant receives one copy of The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music (2nd revised edition, 2009) by registered airmail; and also an original CD of auspicious Carnatic music rendered by Kalaimamani Sheik Mahaboob Subhani & Kalaimamani Kaleeshabi Mahaboob (leading nadasvaram exponents in Srirangam).