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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SANGEETA GNANAMU
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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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Success &growth as a musician are different things
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A dancer’s prayatnam to upgrade
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Purnima Sen
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Sarangi playing needs dedication
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Rajeswari Padmanabhan
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Dance Day Fest 2015
Photos by Santosh Kumar Dance Day Fest 2015 Organised by Times of Indi ...
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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Rabindranath Tagore
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A dancing Ganesa from the Pala era
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Raga Megh Malhar and Ragini Basanti
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Kalki Krishnamurti
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