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?”
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T.M.Krishna: the man who weaponized his music
The ongoing public furore — both in the press and social media in India and abroad — over the Madras Music Academy — MMA— conferring its prestigious Annual Award of Sangitha Kalanidhi on T. M. Krishna (TMK) the enfant terrible of the Carnatic Music world, has reignited fierce and polarised social discourse on several themesContinue reading “T.M.Krishna: the man who weaponized his music”
On The Madras Music Academy conferring “Sangitha Kalanidhi” 2024 Award on Sri T M Krishna : Why I grudge it .
A very good friend of mine in Chennai , who is a senior advocate of the Madras High Court, and who hails from a very noble family that I know is steeped in Carnatic Music, sent me a WhatsApp message of barely concealed indignation. He had heard that I was expressing on social media myContinue reading “On The Madras Music Academy conferring “Sangitha Kalanidhi” 2024 Award on Sri T M Krishna : Why I grudge it .”