After I had watched the above YouTube meme , I couldn’t help thinking to myself that it is a pretty graphic but accurate social-commentary on the aspirational generation of Carnatic music youth talent of our modern times ! ☺️ Pardon me if I say also that the funny meme-character struck me as being a caricatureContinue reading ““Reverse career-trajectory” of a Sanjay Subramaniam, Coke-studio jockey ? !”
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Post-2024 Madras Music Academy: The confluence of commercial market-place and the artistic-realm?
Hello folks ! Good news, Category 4 hurricane storm that hit Chennai earlier this month has passed! I mean the storm in social and mainstream media that tore through the world of Carnatic Music in India and abroad for a couple of weeks earlier this month has weakened quickly and significantly and is just aboutContinue reading “Post-2024 Madras Music Academy: The confluence of commercial market-place and the artistic-realm?”
Will the Madras Music Academy be “vikshith” in the year 2047?
The year 2024 could well be a watershed moment for modern India. There is amongst many sections of our people today an exciting Vision of India as “Vikshith Bharath 2047” i.e. a country in the comity of nations of the world recognized at last as fully developed in the centenary year of our Independence. TheContinue reading “Will the Madras Music Academy be “vikshith” in the year 2047?”
Proceedings of THE “MANI & MK ANNUAL 2023 AWARDS Ceremony: DR. SMT. MANI KRISHNASWAMI FOUNDATION, CHENNAI – Part 2 of 2:
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AWARDS CEREMONY at the 2023 “Mani & MK Award for Lifetime Achievement” held on the evening of 12 July 2023 (Mani Krishnaswami commemorative day) at Sunaadalahari Auditorium, Chennai. WELCOME ADDRESS by M.K.Sudarshan Managing Trustee, Smt. Mani Krishnaswami Foundation, Chennai _____________________________________________________ The memory of Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. Smt. Mani Krishnaswami is aliveContinue reading “Proceedings of THE “MANI & MK ANNUAL 2023 AWARDS Ceremony: DR. SMT. MANI KRISHNASWAMI FOUNDATION, CHENNAI – Part 2 of 2:”
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-49
C. The deliberate assault on the most sacred institution of Hindu personal law: the wedding ritual solemnized by Brahmin priest If the father and Party patriarch, M.Karunanidhi, towards the fag end of his lifetime attempted “salami-slicing” the Sri Vaishnava cultural identity by subtly glorifying Ramanujacharya with the chief aim of appropriating the great 11th centuryContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-49″
Subbudu, Semmangudi, Meccademy …. And my parents….
Here below is a Facebook posting dt 28 December 2022 that narrates a famous incident that took the world of Carnatic Music by storm back in 1977. It was the clash of the titans —- Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, the “bhishma pitaamahar” of Carnatic music who ruled the roost for well over two decades in theContinue reading “Subbudu, Semmangudi, Meccademy …. And my parents….”
T M Krishna on Majoritarianism, Liberalism, Love, Hate, Religion, Worship… and showing Compassion for “one community”
This gentleman long ago once used to be an outstanding exponent of the best aspects of classical Carnatic music … I watched the YouTube link https://youtu.be/ZV5gWCNHje0 and listened to his interview by Nidhi Razdan on NDTV and just couldn’t help thinking to myself, What a prodigious talent gone to waste! TMK about 10 years agoContinue reading “T M Krishna on Majoritarianism, Liberalism, Love, Hate, Religion, Worship… and showing Compassion for “one community””
Sri TM Krishna needs to do lot more than merely tweet about poorly remunerated private tutors of Carnatic music
I appreciate Sri TM Krishna coming out on Twitter like this, with all guns blazing, to champion the cause of private Carnatic music tutors who he has discovered (from his unnamed sources?) are all being remunerated unfairly. This to his mind is “sweatshop exploitation” . So outraged is Sri TMK that he has with, trueContinue reading “Sri TM Krishna needs to do lot more than merely tweet about poorly remunerated private tutors of Carnatic music”