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By V RAMNARAYANChennai’s worst flood in living history has come and gone. Unprecedented devastation wracked the city. Other coastal cities in the state suffered similar damage. Mindless urbanisation...
View ArticleBabu Parameswaran
By Anjana AnandBabu Parameswaran is a versatile musician who has made his home in Irvine, California, and has been actively performing in the United States for more than 25 years. His two-decade stint...
View ArticleNadasangamam: Annual Music Workshop at Thennangur
29th - 31st January 2016Nadasangamam, the music wing of Narada Gana Sabha Trust, has been organising residential workshops for musicians and senior students of music since 2011 at Thennangur, situated...
View ArticleRedeeming another’s debt
By S.M. SivakumarMS and Radha in concertIn 1976, a few friends interested in classical music started a cultural organization called Rasikapriya in Ernakulam, Kochi. I was the secretary and we arranged...
View ArticleDikshitar and Beethoven in Melharmony Festival
By SamudriMadison in USA has gained the unique distinction of hosting multi-cultural twin-composer festivals over the last few years which have brought together two immortal composers from two...
View ArticleSruti and Pitch
By Bala ShankarManjul Bhargava is to December music season as Sivaji Ganesan was to Olympics! Only until one heard Manjul’s excellent speech at the Music Academy. The connections he expounded between...
View ArticleRagaland – A romance of many anubhavas
By Sindhuja BhakthavatsalamThe line was all too clear. There were the raktisand there were the scales. Of course, one could be rakti and also ghanam, or deshya, or anything else but merely scalar. The...
View ArticleNalco award for Ileana Citaristi
Ileana CItaristi received the NALCO Kharavela award for her contribution to Odissi dance (in the 'guru' category). The award, consisting of a scroll, a citation and a cheque of 1,00,000 rupees was...
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