(DISCLAIMER : at the outset , let me say clearly that I am aware that the subject matter of this blog is presently “sub-judice” in the Madras High Court. It is not my intention at all to make any sort of comment whatsoever on what the Honourable Court is seized of . The focus ofContinue reading “A cultural maelstrom in a teacup called the Madras Music Academy caused by T M Krishna?”
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THE ENTRY OF TROJAN HORSES INTO THE MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY (MMA)
No one denies the hoary origins and status of these dance and music forms … Even “oppari” and “gaana” music are folk art indeed. The question here is not however about their origin or cultural credentials . The MMA is an institution that was conceived and incepted in the first place to promote, preserve andContinue reading “THE ENTRY OF TROJAN HORSES INTO THE MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY (MMA)”
T M Krishna and the Madras Music Academy Executive Committee Members would do well to read this 2011 article
“Carnatic music ideals”—by Spencer Venugopal published on Friday, December 23rd 2011, 3:30:00 am Classicism is not too vague for words, it is indeed too precise Music seasons come and go with their fanfare and festivity, triumphs and tears, debuts and swansongs, awards and tributes. But through the mighty ocean of sound bytes inside the concertContinue reading “T M Krishna and the Madras Music Academy Executive Committee Members would do well to read this 2011 article”
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?”
The Bileful “Bilahari” of T M Krishna on a baleful icon
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/93ytaACSkJAHfEVR/?mibextid=w8EBqM In this Bileful Bilahari piece above , our Sangitha Kalanidhi designate, Sriman Thodur Madabushi Krishna offers “mangalaasaasanam”, “pottri paadal” and hosanna to the great patriarch of Dravidianism, E V Ramaswamy Naicker, the man whose Baleful motto in life is etched even today in stone epigraphy outside the Sankara Muttam in Kanchipuram and outside theContinue reading “The Bileful “Bilahari” of T M Krishna on a baleful icon”
“Subha sweekaaram” for “karnaataka sangeetham” at the Madras Music Academy in December 2024
The Madras Music Academy is not going to budge … now that it has the fulsome public support (in the press and on Twitter) of K Veeramani of DK, Kanimozhi of DMK , N Ram (closet-member of the CPM) and from the rest of their tribe . What is the point in all we rasikasContinue reading ““Subha sweekaaram” for “karnaataka sangeetham” at the Madras Music Academy in December 2024″
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….”