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T.V. Sankaranayanan - A tribute
From a devoted rasika As I try to process the passing of T.V. Sankaranarayanan (TVS), memories of a musician who has provided me with so much joy and shaped my own music, are flooding me. As a boy and...
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Record Rack - SHUDDHA SWAROOPAM
SHUDDHA SWAROOPAM — A garland of nine different songs composed by Shuddhananda Bharati and tuned by Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi. Produced and released by Charsur Digital Works. Suddhanada Bharati, the...
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Editor's Note
In this November issue of Sruti we offer you an interesting variety of articles covering various genres – classical, folk, devotional and films; Carnatic, Hindustani, vocal and instrumental music;...
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Learn Dance with Suki - Jagyaseni Chatterjee
Suki Learns to Dance (Level 1) is a dance-based activity book for children conceived and authored by Bharatanatyam dancer and writer JagyaseniChatterjee, and published by GIRI Trading Agency Pvt Ltd.,...
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Prestigious Award for Shashank Subramanyam
Flautist Shashank Subramanyam has been awarded the prestigious Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by decree of July 15, 2022. The Minister of Culture of the French Republic has bestowed this...
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TRIBUTE - Tragic saga of Kunharan Peruvannan
His was an odyssey that ended as a divine tragedy. He played god on earth, but ace Theyyam exponent Kunharan Peruvannan died in acute pain, frustration and poverty on 24 June 2022. He suffered burns...
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BOOKSHELF- Athisaya Vara Prasadhini
It was a usual Sunday evening on 12 June 2022, and the road to the venue, Ragasudha Hall near Nageswara Rao Park, Mylapore was filled with cars. The hall was packed with art patrons, musicians, rasikas...
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Pursuing their dreams - Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy
More than 130 years after Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy was born, her life and achievements were celebrated in Chennai to a packed auditorium. The enterprising woman behind this event was V.R. Devika -- a...
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FROM THE EDITOR
It is a jubilant time for the performing arts in Chennai as the much awaited world-famous ‘music and dance season’ has actually come ‘a-live’ this year after a two-year online avatar. There are titles...
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K. ARUN PRAKASH - Artist with a singular style
He is perhaps the most polarising mridangist of current times, and K. Arun Prakash is well aware of it. “What I am doing is unprecedented and anything unprecedented takes time to get accepted,” he...
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Season 2022 - S.Sowmya's Lecdem on Lesser-known Composers
S. Sowmya lecture demonstration – Musical Pearls of Lesser-known ComposersA typical Carnatic kutcheri is filled with a majority of songs by the Trinity, with the latter half of the concert ‘sometimes’...
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