But behind the ethereal sound of the castrato singers lay an unspeakable truth. To preserve the high, angelic tone of boyhood, thousands of young boys were castrated.

In a rare freak accident on May 15, the young boy, currently unnamed and based in the Nawazpur district of Balrampur, had been innocently playing when he fell on the exposed nail.

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