The Season Online
This year the Music Season in Chennai is online in a big way. Nothing can replace live concerts of course, but in a year of COVID, this is the responsible way to go for sure. For people like myself…...
3 Years Ago
Kanna Kattarul
Once there was a community called ‘The-Learned’. They called the others ‘Not-The-Learned’. I wonder, did the ‘Not-the-Learned’ call themselves ‘The-Learned…...
3 Years Ago
Devi Pavane
Tuesday, 13 Oct’Navaratri starts next Saturday, better start working on a post now’ I tell myself. I’ve already left it a bit too late. I consider my choices and decide on picking…...
3 Years Ago
Natha Hare
Why does some poetry last eight centuries in the memory of men while others last not even a generation? I don’t really have an answer. I am referring to Jayadeva’s epic work Gita Govind…...
3 Years Ago
A Voice for the Stars
‘Oh no, he has passed away!’ I read the news item with sorrow. I know that he has been in critical care for a while. But it still hits hard. I go about my day but it is there at the bac…...
3 Years Ago
Mere Rashk-E-Qamar
This is a post I have been meaning to do for a long time so I am happy to have finally come to it. Regular readers know that though I write mostly about Carnatic Music, I am very fond of a few othe…...
3 Years Ago
