An Enriching Experience! – Indira Kadambi
Dance workshop at Punaroor Viswanatha Swamy temple An Enriching Experience! After week long celebrations of weddings, Brahmopadesham, catching up with relatives, working sleepless nights, and meetings lined up in the polluted city - Bangalore, It was such a divine experience for me to be at Punaroor temple. Amidst the paddy…
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Lavani – an overview – Team eAmbalam
Lavani – an overview - Team eAmbalam Lavani is a combination of traditional song and dance, which particularly performed to the beats of Dholki, a percussion instrument. It is a genre of music popular in Maharashtra and southern Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Originally, it was used as a form of entertainment and morale booster to…
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202 – not out! – Indira Kadambi
202 - not out! .. 202!..What’s that?!.. Just a number? Hmm.. na.. .then, what? ..Well… let me begin.. Suzanne, 32 year old fit and smart young and tall well built lady, who happened to be my instructor at the basic mountaineering course came over to Chennai to do a bicycle…
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An Indian American’s quest – Srimayi Mylavarapu…
Each and every one of us has something in common with someone we call hero. Whether its competition, understanding, or sensibility, we can each show our inner hero. For me, I was never connected by athleticism, intelligence, or courage. I was connected through passion, a passion for my culture. Dance…
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A friend in deed – A tribute…
This man never ceases to amaze me. At 83, he walks into my concert this December 2012 assisted by his son, sits in the first row and through the entire concert. He never leaves before telling what he felt about the concert. On some occasions he has written spontaneous poetry,…
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Videos
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Indian influence in western music – K.Venkatanarayanan
If you are one of the "oldies" who love to say that music nowadays is continuously plumbing the depth and often going into the realms of noise, you will understand when I say "those were the days". As an afficinado of Carnatic music, a decade or two back was the…
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Responsibility of guiding students – T.V. Ramprasadh
Many young men or women come to me with a typical question? Is it viable to take music as a profession ? It is definitely a difficult one to answer.We need to provide real responsible and considered answers to such queries. The options open to people in the music industry…
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Simply divine MS Subbulakshmi – A. Sathyanarayanan
I grew up in Hyderabad in the seventies and that ensured I could not read and write in Tamil, my mother tongue. Truth be told even my spoken Tamil is a subject of much banter and mock when cousins come visiting. In the eighties I was into Rock music, it…
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