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Articles
Music Appreciation Notes - Vachaspati Raga
S.Rajam
Varga: Sampoorna-Sampoorna
Arohana: Sa ri gu mi pa dhi ni sa
Avarohana: Sa ni dhi pa mi gu ri sa
Chhaya swara-s: Ga, pa, dha, ni
Nyasa swara-s: ri, ma, dha
Prayoga-s: Pa dha ni; dha ma ga ri; dha ni sa ri ga ri; n ...
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From Holistic Theatre To Specialised Mime
Theatre / Prof. V. Subramaniam -
The Ancient Yazh: Was It A Digital Instrument?
Music / V.G. Krishnamurthy -
T M Krishna on Sanjay Subrahmanyan
Music / T M Krishna -
Rear window - Dhamal: an Afro-Indian dance
Dance / Sapna Rangaswamy -
Raga Shuddha Kalyan: How and why it is changing
Music / Deepak Raja
Artists
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Ranjani Hebbar
The enchanting voice of Carnatic vocalist Ranjani Hebbar has been silenced forever. She succumbed to cancer at barely 30 years of age. Like her many ...
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Adyar Lakshmanan
Adyar K. Lakshman, vocalist, nattuvanar, mridangist and erstwhile dancer, is indubitably a sangeetagna, the complete expert in all the aspects of his ...
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Mahesh Dattani
Mahesh Dattani is a leading dramatist. Described as 'one of India's best and most serious contemporary playwrights writing in English' by Alexander Vi ...
Interviews
The market for the Tabla solo is disappearing
Deepak raja
Nayan spoke to Deepak Raja on January 28, 2000
My father, Pandit Nikhil Ghosh -- we called him Baba--was my Guru in all departments of music. He is remembered as a tabla maestro. This, indeed, he was. He was trained by three phenomenal percuss ...
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“Appreciation from vidwans is the highest award”
Music / Aishwarya Srinivas -
Interview: Sonal Mansingh
Dance / S. JANAKI -
“Time has been a major influence”
Dance / Shrinkhla Sahai -
Mylapore — Musical hub of Madras
Dance / GAYATRI SUNDARESAN -
Bahauddin Dagar
Music / Suchita Rao
Heritage
National Songs - Vande Mataram and Janaganamana
Song of India. It was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, whose 172nd birthday falls this month. Janaganamana is our National Anthem, and Rabindranath Tagore was its author.
Stamps on Vande Mataram and Bankim Chandra
The Department of Posts and ...
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An exquisite Pallava Nataraja
Stamps / Dr. Chitra Madhavan -
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Stamps / S. SANKARANARAYANAN -
Mahanavami Dibba in Hampi
Sthalams / Chithra Madhavan -
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
Stamps / S. SANKARANARAYANAN