Like millions of Rasikas all over the world , I too consider myself an ardent Sri Thyagaraja bhakth who loves so many of the saint’s exquisite kritis and often, whenever swept away by the mood, I do sing a few of them in the privacy of my home purely for the delight of my ownContinue reading “Sri Thyagaraja, the undeclared Sri Vaishnava “prapannan””
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The Carnatic Music world quietly forgot (maybe even forgave?) Kamal Hassan deriding Saint Thyagaraja… but not this feisty Muslim woman!
The whole world of Carnatic Music aficionados, institutions, Vidwans, Rasikas and musicologist should watch this video-clip below and hang their collective heads in shame and sin. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DLUSD44eC/?mibextid=wwXIfr The Muslim woman castigates Kamal Haasan for having disgraced Sri Thyagaraja once when he spoke during an Instagram Live conversation with actor Vijay Sethupathi on May 4, 2020.Continue reading “The Carnatic Music world quietly forgot (maybe even forgave?) Kamal Hassan deriding Saint Thyagaraja… but not this feisty Muslim woman!”
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?”
Even judged by the “sole criterion of musical excellence”, will T M Krishna pass the muster for “sangitha kalanidhi”?
Shut out from your mind all the din and noise of heated debates on the subject issue that is raging today in the media , press, TV and social media. Turn away or turn blind to the unending stream of statements and commentaries emanating out now ad nauseam from politicians and social celebrities, many ofContinue reading “Even judged by the “sole criterion of musical excellence”, will T M Krishna pass the muster for “sangitha kalanidhi”?”
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”