News & Notes
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Hemavathi – Remembering Parassala Ponnammal
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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

Chittoor Subramania Pillai: The Composer
V.A.K. RANGA RAO
It was the late nineteen thirties and I must have been seven or eight at that time. Two elder sisters and I were living in an erstwhile royal hunting lodge near Ravannadoravalasa, a tribal hamlet. Curtailed by royal prot ...
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Winds of change
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POINT OF VIEW
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Music Appreciation Notes - Lathangi Raga
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Music Appreciation Notes - Vachaspati Raga
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Tanam
Music / Dr. R. Vedavalli
Artists
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Needamangalam Meenakshisundaram Pillai
History maker tavil vidwan Needamangalam Meenakshisundaram Pillai accompanied every nagaswara vidwan of his time. He is said to have added lustre to t ...
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Padma Subrahmanyam
Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam is a rare combination of a dancer, scholar, choreographer, teacher, singer, music composer, author and Indologist. Born on 4 Fe ...
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Mohan Agashe
Born in 1947 at Bhor, Pune district, Mohan Agashe is an actor and theatre personality on the Marathi stage. An active participant in in theatre during ...
Interviews

WE SHOULD BE HONEST WITH OUR ART
MEENA BANERJEE
‘WE SHOULD BE HONEST WITH OUR ART’
An interview with Shruti Sadolikar
Shruti Sadolikar Katkar, one of the best contemporary exponents of the Jaipur Atrauli gharana, was in Kolkata recently. During a rewarding morning session organised b ...
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Akshay Anantapadmanabhan
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Mani Krishnaswami Interviews M.S. Subbulakshmi
Music / Sangeeta Kalanidhi MANI KRISHNASWAMI -
It is the mind that sings, and not the voice
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The market for the Tabla solo is disappearing
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Getting Away From Expressional Dance
Dance / Samudri
Photo Gallery
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LEICHAL Day 3 - TETSEO SISTERS
The Tetseo Sisters from Nagaland singing on the concluding day at the L ...
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Heritage

The composer of Colletpet
SRIRAM.V
In this sequel to Colletpet Tiger’s lair (see Article Tiger's Lair) Sriram provides proof of Colletpet’s claim to be regarded as a significant ‘sangeeta sthalam’. He discovered from the Gana Manjari, a compilation of the composition ...
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An exquisite Pallava Nataraja
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National Songs - Vande Mataram and Janaganamana
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A dancing Ganesa from the Pala era
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Ustad Bismillah Khan
Stamps / S. SANKARANARAYANAN