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'She was a medium to reach the almighty'

December 14, 2004 11:37 IST

Name:Jayakumar
Message:Great loss to the entire world. Pray God to take similar birth in India and carry the legacy of carnatic music forward.


Name:Jaydev Bhattacharya
Message:Your life is a prayer enriched with Music of soul. You enlighted the flame of Music not at the Darbar but to every lost hutch and promised hhope " Tomaso Ma yotirmayo"


Name:maanveer
Message:the original queen of ragam,taanam and pallavi.enchanted with her voice and her humility


Name:K.Kamalaksha
Message:We have lost a Kohinoor


Name:dp nair
Message:HER MORNING PRAYERS OF LORD VENKATESHWARA WERE MEDIUM TO REACH THE ALMIGHTY EVERY MORNING. TILL HUMAN RACE IS ALIVE, HER VOICE WOULD LIVE FOR EVER. I INHERITED FROM MY MOTHER, IT WILL NOW GO TO MY DAUGHTER - ALREADY THREE GENERATIONS ARE LISTENING TO HER DEVOTIONAL SONGS. LONG LIVE HER VOICE


Name:darshan
Message:God hadn't heard His minstrel sing for a long time. Therefore, he called her back to Himself.


Name:jaikanthan
Message:I like madam's voice and listen her songs whenever i need complete relax to mind.let her find peace in death.god is great


Name:balaji srivatsa ayyengar
Message:I happened to know of The maestros death only on monday morning at hosur. The entire sunday was infact spent hearing the voice of MS in songs like Kurai ondrum ellai and Srimannarayana. Really shattered on monday morning to know the news that the voice that is become a voice that was in a single day


Name:k.srinivasan
Message:the nature alwayas gives us everything to rejoice. likewise the queen of music has always given us wonderful moments with her voice and even in the periods to come and for our future children of this world her voice will always be echoing as long as this planet exists


Name:Kalidas
Message:Amazing soul - what voice ! Still remember her redering of "Kurai Ondrum Illai, Malai Murthy Kanna...." May your soul rest in peace


Name:MNVVPRASAD
Message:She was a agreat person.No body can forget her devine voice which gives soul satisfaction to all of us forever.The peacefulness in her face(now only in photographs)can make us also to be peaceful.


Name:geethadevi
Message:She was the true messenger of GOD to this world


Name:S. Lakshmana Kumar
Message:Music is the only language, one can communicate with GOD. The one and only language known by MS. Music lost one of its kohinoor. We and Music may loose MS but not her Suprabhatham. May her soul rest in peace.


Name:Lal
Message:Divinity is the word for the music from MS.


Name:Dr.R.GANESH
Message:SHE LIVED FOR MUSIC AND HER MUSIC WILL LIVE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. IDEALLY, AS A TRIBUTE TO THIS GREAT MUSICIAN, THE TAMIL NADU GOVT SHOULD RENAME ONE OF THE ROADS IN CHENNAI AS "M S SUBBULAKSHMI ROAD"


Name:venkatesh
Message:i feel closer to God whenever i listen to the Pancharatnamala cassete, it is deeply divine


Name:Radha Ganesh Ram
Message:MS -she can never be replaced.the kind of charisma she had and devotion and passion she carried for carnatic music is unmatchable. i had the opportunity of meeting her and singing a few lines in her presence... i was awestruck. may be she is not physically around, but her aura will always be there.


Name:S.Ravichandran
Message:Deeply shocked to hear about the sad demise of MS on 11th December. I still remember that golden moment when I was a small boy, I was blessed to hear her songs in a temple at Dalmiapuram (Presently Kalakudi Palanganatham) in Tamil Nadu.


Name:Ramanathan
Message:She is one of the greatest of musicians that India has produced so far. She is the one to be called as `Nightingale of India' which, unfortunately, has not been so far (atleast officiallt). To me, her alapanai of Simmendra Madyamam (Song - Raama Raama) is just outstanding. Though she moved to bhakthi rasa and sang more of bhajan songs of late (which perhaps is not of real carnatic nature), she has proved to be a great carnatic exponent. Though people will remember her Voice for ever (which is not that important for classical music), I prefer to see her as a great contributor and flag-bearer of Carnatic music who helped in spreading it to the whole world. May this country remember her and her contributions forever and not just on her day of demise. May her soul rest in peace.


Name:Pradeep Reddy
Message:Her talent was only excelled by her Bhakti and selflessness. She has shown to the world that only through selflessness and devotion will the pinnacle of human acheivement be reached. In this era of crass commercialism and greed her soul shone forth and through her all of us glimpsed a moment of truth and joy.


Name:anand gopal
Message:M.S subulakshmi's voice was such that she touched each individual's soul.she induced the feeling and the mood into each song she sang .There was that essence of bhakti in her songs.M.S has left a void in the carnatic music a void that can never be filled by anyone


Name:Mrs. S . Priya
Message:She was nice and her songs were touching our hearts. We miss her.


Name:ms. prasad.
Message:She is either reincornation of saraswati or she had a real darshan of respective god whom she was prising through her musical voice.Who ever she is,she is an angel who came down to earth to provide all of us parama santhi through her devinely voice


Name:Srinivasan V
Message:M.S. - the name that inspires every Carnatic music lover - I'm sure for the next 100 years (atleast) Carnatic music lovers will wake up to M.S.'s Suprabatha. I wish we remember her day of passage with some meaningful event!


Name:bharan kumar
Message:the greatest Carnatic musucian after Thiyagaraja


Name:Chandar
Message:The way she sang Vishnu sahasranamam,Suprabhatam and many other shlokas, it appeared as if she was God's own child.May the departed soul rest in peace...Om shree Venkatesaya namaha.


Name:Skanda Subramaniam
Message:You are simply the greatest singer ever with a magical voice.Shame on NDTV and other news channels and newspapers like Times Of India which have covered badly the death of a greatest singer of all time. We will all miss you but you will always stay in our memories


Name:K.R.MANJUNATH
Message:What a Great Soul. Her life should be an eye opener to our greedy politicians. She has earned and donated for her noble deeds. May her Soul rest in peace away from all this greed and injustice.


Name:Jayaseelan
Message:Subbulakshmi was a jewel in the world of music, the likes of whom are born only once in ages.


Name:Rajagopal Santhanakrishnan
Message:Inaddition to her dedicated efforts to world of Music, she did carried out lots of Charity as respectable human soul.


Name:Vivek
Message:Being from AP, i can't forget her songs of annamacharya kirthanas. I remember "bhavamu lona bahyamu nandhuna," , "sri mannarayana" as some of my favourites. Pray for her peace.


Name:R.srinivasan iyer
Message:I hear my maliga amma voice for ever swamiye saranam ayyappa


Name:l,ravichander
Message:The wrorld of music has lost one of its most melodious notes. only All Inidia Radio did not seem aware of it and went ahead with its Sangeet Samelan without even a word in memory of the melody Queen. anation that does not respect its hereos will soon have none.


Name:Saikrishna
Message:It is Really Sadness to all of the Entire World on The Demise Of Smt.M S Subbulakshmi. She can be remembered always thru Our Telugu Suprabatam-A Song sung by Her In Praise of Lord Balaji.


Name:Murali
Message:Suprabhathathinte Gayigakke ente Ashrupookkal


Name:Ganapathy R
Message:MS gave not just colours, but, life to so many songs. Undoubtedly, she was the queen for Karnatic music, and, so to say, she was the MUSIC LEGEND. I still remember, my childhood days, where, I used to insist for Bajagovindam & Kattrinile Varum Geetham (Meera), for my sleeping as THALATTU SONGS. She lived a sacred life, atleast for last 3 to 4 decades. MAY HER SOUL REST IN THE PEACE. God should make her next janma as Kuraiondrumillai.


Name:Vidhya
Message:We have lost an enchanting nightingale to 'kala chakra'. May her soul rest in peace.