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Hemavathi – Remembering Parassala Ponnammal
S. Sivaramakrishnan -
Impressive tributes to Rabindranath Tagore - Jyotirgamaya
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An Anthem for Mylapore
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Book Review - A GRAMMAR OF DANCE
Sreelatha Vinod
Articles
MAESTROES OF MELATTUR
Dr. Arudra
Melattur is not only the birth place of the Bhagavata Mela dance-drama tradition but also the native place of great composers of music and dance works. It was here the early varna-s, swarajati-s. alarippu-s, tillana-s an ...
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Music as theatre
Theatre / Indira Parthasarathy -
The Violin
Music / T.S. Mani -
Sruti – Music Forum Lec-Dem Mela 2014 Part 2
Music / Gayathri Sundaresan -
PERSPECTIVES - It is art music, not classical
Music / Deepak S. Raja -
Music Appreciation Notes - Lathangi Raga
Music / S.Rajam
Artists
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Anindo Chatterjee
Anindo Chatterjee Anindo Chatterjee’s initiation into the tabla came at the tender age of five, while watching his uncle, Biswanath Chatterjee ...
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Rhadha
Guru Rhadha is one of the leading exponents of the Vazhuvoor tradition of Bharatanatyam, a fine choreographer, and a teacher extraordinaire. Rhadha w ...
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Kumbakonam Balamani
Kumbakonam Balamani Ammal was hailed on the Tamil stage of the early twentieth century as the queen of theatre. The first woman to run a company entir ...
Interviews
A Cellist in Hindustani music
Shrinkhla Sahai
A cellist in Hindustani music
Saskia Rao-de Haas in conversation with Shrinkhla Sahai
Initially trained as a cellist in Western classical music, Saskia Rao-de Haas’s tryst with north Indian classical music took her to varied musical shores. W ...
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Dancer as poet, painter, actor
Dance / Charukesi -
Insights From A Long Innings
Music / V.S. KUMAR -
‘Your Music Is Your Personality’
Music / BARADWAJ RANGAN, -
It is the mind that sings, and not the voice
Music / Deepak raja -
Rajeswari Padmanabhan
Music / NITHYA BALAJI
Heritage
Swamimalai
SRIRAM.V
Legend
The fourth of the six principal shrines (Aru Padai Veedu) of Lord Subramania in Tamil Nadu is at Swamimalai or Tiruveragam, located three miles from Kumbakonam. Legend has it that Subramania once asked Brahma the meaning of Om, the pranava. A ...
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An exquisite Pallava Nataraja
Stamps / Dr. Chitra Madhavan -
Ustad Bismillah Khan
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A dancing Ganesa from the Pala era
Stamps / Chithra Madhavan -
P.L. Deshpande
Stamps / S. SANKARANARAYANAN