
Musical Reflections on MahaShivaratri Shivaratri occurs once a month, the night before the new moon night; it is only the Shivaratri that occurs before the onset of the last month of the Hindu year, that is celebrated as MahaShivaratri or the Great Shivaratri. ...More

Shivaratri occurs once a month, the night before the new moon night; it is only the Shivaratri that occurs before the onset of the last month of the Hindu year, that is celebrated as MahaShivaratri or the Great Shivaratri. ...More

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A Tale of Three Instant hits – 1976, 1991 and 2011 I cant help comparing the unprecedented reach of kolaveri in 2011 with the success of Illaiyaraja’s machana paattingala in 1776 and Rahman’s china china aasai in 1991...
Music Season Flashes 2011 Like many others, I engaged in some sabha hopping this season. On Sunday the 18th, I decided to go attend two concerts by disciples of Dr. Sunder, a friend of mine....
The 'Kolaveri' phenomenon We were on a road trip last week and my Android was constantly notifying me of messages regarding Kolaveri; Our constant movement prevented me from looking into what kolaveri...
The raga Udayaravichandrika In the world of ragas there are old ones and new ones. There are ragas identifiable by catch phrases and those created by speculating on scalar or modal combinations....
Cellphone ringtones Cellphone ringtones - What does it take to make a catchy tune? The word 'jingle' says it all. Something short, something fresh, something that puts a hook on the listener and makes them remember it....
Spontaneity in singing - yet another artist While on the topico of spontaneity in singing, let me add that there is much more to add about SPB (in addition to what was said in a prior article), but let us move on to S. Janaki today....
Lyrics and their translation Similarly a train of thought, an idea may be relevant to a particular culture and may make sense only in its native language and translations could be totally meaningless....
"Who cares about the meaning anyway"? While I would raise my hand in opposiition to anyone who would vote against the importance of lyrics, I am kind of taken aback by this lone song which takes lyric-meaninglessness to new heights....
Playback singing with a special touch The nuances that SPB brought in through his dry chuckle just prior to the word ‘parihaasam’ in the song ‘panivizhum malarvanam’ in ‘ninaivellaam nitya’ is in total contrast to his choked voice in ‘vaigaraiyil vaigai karaiyil’...
Diversity in dhrupad themes Dhrupad is an older form of Indian classical music. It is now regarded (by many) as an archaic form of Hindustani music....
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A Tale of Three Instant hits – 1976, 1991 and 2011

I cant help comparing the unprecedented reach of kolaveri in 2011 with the success of Illaiyaraja’s machana paattingala in 1776 and Rahman’s china china aasai in 1991...

Music Season Flashes 2011

Like many others, I engaged in some sabha hopping this season. On Sunday the 18th, I decided to go attend two concerts by disciples of Dr. Sunder, a friend of mine....

The 'Kolaveri' phenomenon

We were on a road trip last week and my Android was constantly notifying me of messages regarding Kolaveri; Our constant movement prevented me from looking into what kolaveri...

The raga Udayaravichandrika

In the world of ragas there are old ones and new ones. There are ragas identifiable by catch phrases and those created by speculating on scalar or modal combinations....

Cellphone ringtones

Cellphone ringtones - What does it take to make a catchy tune? The word 'jingle' says it all. Something short, something fresh, something that puts a hook on the listener and makes them remember it....

Spontaneity in singing - yet another artist

While on the topico of spontaneity in singing, let me add that there is much more to add about SPB (in addition to what was said in a prior article), but let us move on to S. Janaki today....

Lyrics and their translation

Similarly a train of thought, an idea may be relevant to a particular culture and may make sense only in its native language and translations could be totally meaningless....

"Who cares about the meaning anyway"?

While I would raise my hand in opposiition to anyone who would vote against the importance of lyrics, I am kind of taken aback by this lone song which takes lyric-meaninglessness to new heights....

Playback singing with a special touch

The nuances that SPB brought in through his dry chuckle just prior to the word ‘parihaasam’ in the song ‘panivizhum malarvanam’ in ‘ninaivellaam nitya’ is in total contrast to his choked voice in ‘vaigaraiyil vaigai karaiyil’...