Fareed Zakaria of CNN GPS fame makes no secret of his having — and how proud he is of — the bleeding liberal- secularist heart that beats inside his breast. In this hour-long interview with another equally if not more famous international best-selling author Malcom Gladwell, Zakaria preens in the centre of the Global PublicContinue reading ““Fareed’s Take” on liberal-secularism in India makes Zakaria sound like the “11th Head of Ravana””
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“Reverse career-trajectory” of a Sanjay Subramaniam, Coke-studio jockey ? !
After I had watched the above YouTube meme , I couldn’t help thinking to myself that it is a pretty graphic but accurate social-commentary on the aspirational generation of Carnatic music youth talent of our modern times ! ☺️ Pardon me if I say also that the funny meme-character struck me as being a caricatureContinue reading ““Reverse career-trajectory” of a Sanjay Subramaniam, Coke-studio jockey ? !”
Post-2024 Madras Music Academy: The confluence of commercial market-place and the artistic-realm?
Hello folks ! Good news, Category 4 hurricane storm that hit Chennai earlier this month has passed! I mean the storm in social and mainstream media that tore through the world of Carnatic Music in India and abroad for a couple of weeks earlier this month has weakened quickly and significantly and is just aboutContinue reading “Post-2024 Madras Music Academy: The confluence of commercial market-place and the artistic-realm?”
“Time must have a stop” said Aldous Huxley and Indira Parthasarathy asks me if that means he “must not go on and on”?
The eminent Tamil scholar and famous novelist of yesteryears Sri. Indira Parthasarathy and I almost on a daily basis exchange WhatsApp messages on many sundry topics and views of the day … He asks usually very sharp and thought provoking questions to me and expects me to provide him ready spontaneous answers …. Not carefullyContinue reading ““Time must have a stop” said Aldous Huxley and Indira Parthasarathy asks me if that means he “must not go on and on”?”
A Eulogy for my gentle philosopher-friend, Sri B S Raghavan !
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/retired-bureaucrat-bs-raghavan-dies/article68050264.ece/amp/ I was perusing my email archives and came upon the below email that Sri BSR had sent me back in November 2021 …. I loved interacting with BSR sir because he was one person amongst my large circle of online friends with whom an abiding interest in philosophy was common… many of my other friends careContinue reading “A Eulogy for my gentle philosopher-friend, Sri B S Raghavan !”
Will the Madras Music Academy be “vikshith” in the year 2047?
The year 2024 could well be a watershed moment for modern India. There is amongst many sections of our people today an exciting Vision of India as “Vikshith Bharath 2047” i.e. a country in the comity of nations of the world recognized at last as fully developed in the centenary year of our Independence. TheContinue reading “Will the Madras Music Academy be “vikshith” in the year 2047?”
Even judged by the “sole criterion of musical excellence”, will T M Krishna pass the muster for “sangitha kalanidhi”?
Shut out from your mind all the din and noise of heated debates on the subject issue that is raging today in the media , press, TV and social media. Turn away or turn blind to the unending stream of statements and commentaries emanating out now ad nauseam from politicians and social celebrities, many ofContinue reading “Even judged by the “sole criterion of musical excellence”, will T M Krishna pass the muster for “sangitha kalanidhi”?”
The Bileful “Bilahari” of T M Krishna on a baleful icon
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/93ytaACSkJAHfEVR/?mibextid=w8EBqM In this Bileful Bilahari piece above , our Sangitha Kalanidhi designate, Sriman Thodur Madabushi Krishna offers “mangalaasaasanam”, “pottri paadal” and hosanna to the great patriarch of Dravidianism, E V Ramaswamy Naicker, the man whose Baleful motto in life is etched even today in stone epigraphy outside the Sankara Muttam in Kanchipuram and outside theContinue reading “The Bileful “Bilahari” of T M Krishna on a baleful icon”
“Subha sweekaaram” for “karnaataka sangeetham” at the Madras Music Academy in December 2024
The Madras Music Academy is not going to budge … now that it has the fulsome public support (in the press and on Twitter) of K Veeramani of DK, Kanimozhi of DMK , N Ram (closet-member of the CPM) and from the rest of their tribe . What is the point in all we rasikasContinue reading ““Subha sweekaaram” for “karnaataka sangeetham” at the Madras Music Academy in December 2024″
T.M.Krishna: the man who weaponized his music
The ongoing public furore — both in the press and social media in India and abroad — over the Madras Music Academy — MMA— conferring its prestigious Annual Award of Sangitha Kalanidhi on T. M. Krishna (TMK) the enfant terrible of the Carnatic Music world, has reignited fierce and polarised social discourse on several themesContinue reading “T.M.Krishna: the man who weaponized his music”