• SWARASADHANA - Carnatic Music Workshop - May 11th & 12th: SWARASADHANA, is a two day Carnatic Music Workshop. There were many spontaneous ecstatic outpourings of poet composers of the past which remain largely unknown. These compositions have not been widely taught or heard sung on concert platforms. It is such “rare gems” that will be taught in this workshop...
  • Something Different...: It is not often that we go to a concert and get overwhelmed by the atmosphere in which the musical experience between the performer and the listener is shared. Normally, it is in a hall adorning the organisation's banner behind with the standard microphones and lights. How would it be if the setting was also in sync with the aesthetic beauty of the music that we love so much?
  • Social Call : Catch a kutcheri on Youtube. Listen to live comments from a concert on your smart phone. Or get a peek into your favourite artiste’s living room and watch them rehearse for a concert. Lakshmi Krupa meets some social media-savvy Carnatic musicians who have married technology with tradition to meet the demands of today’s rasika
  • Framework freedom: Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, in a recent concert, competently rendered the nuances of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana
  • Dances of the natives : The crowd that gathered at Gokaraju Laila Gangaraju Kala Vedika, Vijayawada, for five days witnessed a number of exquisite folk dance performances from different parts of the country. The da...

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In The News

Ragas to reel

Chitra Swaminathan | The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

Rajeev Chaurasia’s documentary Bansuri Guru sums up Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia’s life and music

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A treat to the senses

A. Shrikumar | The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

Grab the extra dose of entertainment at the anniversary celebrations of Vishaal De Mal

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Stage artists honoured

The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

Sri Krishna Gana Sabha celebrated International Theatre Artists Day on March 27 by honouring veteran theatre artists. Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti, President SKGS, welcomed the gathering and introdu...

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Rendered with professional élan

G. Swaminathan | The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

Concert Ranjani and Gayatri framed their thematic concert with focus on various aspects found in the Bhagavad Gita.

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Sublime verses that touched a global chord

Nita Vidyarthi | The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

Centenary Celebration of Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali,’ which won the Nobel Prize 100 years ago, was marked by recitations and music.

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Unique steps

Vidya Saranyan | The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

Saroja Vaidyanathan’s calm demeanour reflects the collective experiences of her years as a renowned Bharatanatyam artist, a well-respected teacher, author, choreographer and the founder-president...

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Prime role

Ankita Mitra | The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

Lights, camera and action! The words are enough to create a stir in the heart of an actor, whether a theatre artist or a silver screen star. Jahilesh Jain, a theatre veteran from Bhopal, dreams th...

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Drenched in colour and music

Tapati Chowdurie | The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

The Dol Utsav at Santiniketan saw an aesthetic performance of Tagore’s dance drama “Shapmochan”

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An insight into the Mahatma

Pheroze L. Vincent | The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

Akshara Theatre’s “Anasakti: Gandhi’s Gita” was more informative than dramatic

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Founts of inspiration

Leela Venkataraman | The Hindu | 2 weeks ago

With the 15th National Festival of Creative Arts adding a range of art forms, some wondered if space for dance is shrinking further

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Akshay Anantapadmanabhan

Sushma Somasekharan | Sruti | 2 weeks ago

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Dance like a pro

V Ramnarayan | Sruti | 3 weeks ago

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Golden oldies

V Ramnarayan | Sruti | 3 weeks ago

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Sumesh Narayanan

Sharan Sivakumar | Sruti | 3 weeks ago

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Remembering Manna Srinivasan

Gita Sankaran | Sruti | 1 month ago

'A life that touches others oes on forever.' One such life was celebrated by family and friends in the Remembrance Meet for Manna Srinivasan held on 2nd March at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha’s Nalli Gana Vihar hall in Chennai...

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Spaces

Arundhathi Krishnan | Sruti | 1 month ago

After the conclusion of the Madras music season, IIT Madras Music Club has been host to Youthfest 2013, its annual series for the up and coming faces of Carnatic music. This year’s line-up included...

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A celebration of Bhadrachala Ramadas

Ranjani Sivakumar Siddareddy | Sruti | 1 month ago

This song will definitely find an important place in the nostalgia trips of those who grew up in the 1980s. Most of us then owned a copy of this Bhadrachala Ramadasu cassette...

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Raghavendra Raja

Sushma Somasekharan | Sruti | 1 month ago

RR speaks about his music with ardour, and the confidence he exudes in his answers is inspiring...

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Winds of change

Meena Banerjeee | Sruti | 1 month ago

Widespread illiteracy amongst North Indian artist clans, trapped in the socially and politically disturbed medieval period, did away with the vital Indian tradition of questioning in order to attain knowledge. Asking questions was banned and blind faith became an unchallenged requisite...

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Slap

Sharan Mamidipudi | Sruti | 1 month ago

He sang in the morning, sang to the dying stars; he sang to his whitewashed walls, his own voice bouncing off them; he sang for his morning coffee, one-and-a-half tea-spoons of sugar; he sang for spring, for leaves that twirled and girls who flowered with the blooming chrysanthemums...

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A Concert in Indraloka

V Shankaranarayanan | Sruti | 1 month ago

Sandy and Vicky go back a long way with one deep rooted, strong passion - Classical Music. Even with an active work life, if there was one thing that they never missed, it was singing and listening to Carnatic music. They had been drilled and soaked with almost three decades of music...

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Malavika Sarukkai’s mother passes away

Samudri | Sruti | 1 month ago

Saroja Kamakshi, mother of Bharatanatyam artiste and guru Malavika Sarukkai, passed away at their Chennai residence yesterday, 4 February 2013...

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Murugan’s Torment

Rama Varma | Sruti | 1 month ago

He had travelled most of the day and now the car had broken down. They were still about a hundred kilometres from the city. For a while, he breathed in the final, lingering coolness of the AC. The award ceremony was later tonight; Sangita Kalanidhi, Sangeeta Samrat, he couldn’t remember what exactly the title was...

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'I can't live without music': Rama Varma

M Ramakrishnan | Sruti | 1 month ago

Rama Varma was in Chennai recently to conduct a two-day workshop (9 and 10 February 2013) ‘Swarasadhana,’ at the Satyananda Yoga Center at Triplicane. Here he speaks of the event, his journey in classical music and his thoughts on the changing trends of the art form...

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Festival of Sacred Music

Samudri | Sruti | 1 month ago

Chennai’s Prakriti Foundation has announced the annual Festival of Sacred Music at Tiruvaiyaru. The festival this year will feature the following performances. 1 March 2013 at the courtyard of an old Maratha palace...

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Meet the Artist

Vaishnavi Narasimhan

Vaishnavi Narasimhan was born in Mysore, Karanataka. She started studying carnatic music at a young age from her grandmother. She moved to the USA along with her family at the age of 14. Vaishnavi's dedication to Carnatic music did not falter despite her move to the USA. She continued to spend her s...

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