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IT IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE TO BE FEATURED ON THE COVER OF THE ARTS MAGAZINE “SAMUDHRA” PUBLISHED BY MUDHRA SABHA OF CHENNAI FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 2018.     

For radio listeners, the much looked forward broadcast of ‘Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan 2015’ concerts has begun. The first Carnatic recordings broadcast was that of the veena duet concert of the [...]

The last two weeks of December 2013 should count as one of the high points of our lives.  We made a trip to Varanasi (Kashi), combining a personal family yatra, a Dikshitar pilgrimage with [...]

We had been wanting to visit the grand Mani Mandapam of MahaPeriyava for quite sometime.  And it finally happened on July 28, 2012 when we were asked to play a concert there as Anusha [...]

Do excuse our temerity to put this picture up here….but we could not help share this rare privilege that the author of this book has given us. “Let’s Know Music and Musical Instruments of India” [...]

Carnatic Music became a hugely poorer and sadder world with the utimely demise of Chingleput Ranganathan Sir on July 12, 2011. Our association with him began in 1994 when at the suggestion of our [...]

It is a sad day for carnatic music today, as Kalpakam Swaminathan, a true veena tapasvini, has left this world. Eight decades of veena playing and teaching has now become a memory. She was the [...]

India has won the World Cup in Cricket. There is euphoria all around. The entire nation is unable to think of any other matter of interest. People have been talking about Dhoni’s leadership [...]

The family of HR Padmanabha Sastry confers the Padmanabha Sastry Award for Arts every year on musicians. This year we were chosen for the award. HR Padmanabha Sastry was a renowned music director [...]