Turn down the music, save your hearing

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says more than a billion young people around the world are risking their hearing by listening to too much music at a high volume. A W-H-O report has found, among middle- and upper-class people between ages 12 and 35, nearly half are exposed to unsafe levels of sound from headphones and concerts.Maheswaran Prabaharan reports in Tamil, feature prepared by Emma Hannigan for SBS News.

: Members of the public testing out telephones and phonographs at the L’Exposition Universelle in Paris, 1889