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Carnatic Music Goes From Raga To Rage

Carnatic Music Goes From Raga To Rage

Rediff.com29 Mar 2024

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not even seem to recognise that they too have crossed a red line themselves, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.

Reviving Carnatic music the popular way

Reviving Carnatic music the popular way

Rediff.com17 Jun 2007

Jayshree and about 15 others based in Chennai are touring southern Indian states targeting schools and business houses to popularise the genre.

The 'veshti' culture and code

The 'veshti' culture and code

Rediff.com17 Jul 2014

The veshti controversy in Tamil Nadu is not about the dress -- but a dress-code, which seems permissible in private homes and offices, but not in private clubs that are open only to well-heeled, and well-paying private members, observes N Sathiya Moorthy