Author: Ramkumar R

  • The most entertaining news channel?

    This is what can be seen on news channels after India’s win over Australia: Aaj Tak: Buraayi par acchayi ki jeet (Is this ramleela?) Sahara Samay: Sab bacche RP bhaiyya ki tarah banna chaahte hain NDTV 24×7: This story will be part of folklore. Young kids will be told about…

  • Lec dem on the Carnatic Music Trinity by Smt Vidya Shankar – Part 2

    Part 1 of this post can be found here … cont. from Part 1 Sri Thyagaraja: Sri Thyagaraja wrote his first composition on the wall of his house. He is said to have been only about 13 years of age then He composed a lot of songs in bhajana sampradAyam…

  • Lec dem on the Carnatic Music Trinity by Smt Vidya Shankar – Part 1

    Veteran vainika Vid Vidya Shankar gave a very informative lec dem on the Carnatic Music Trinity under the auspices of Naada Inbam at Raga Sudha Hall, Mylapore, Chennai on 14th Jan 2008. She was ably assisted by her disciples who played the veena and sang the songs and by Vid…

  • This Season’s Lec Dems

    There were quite a few interesting lec dems organized during this music season. As luck would have it, I couldn’t attend many due to the clash with my office schedule. I intend to post the gist of the few that I was fortunate to attend in the next few weeks.

  • Bhajji Talk

    The whole country seems to be discussing ICC’s ruling on the allegations against Bhajji. If the buzz in Bangalore is to be believed, Bhajji seems to have testified to the ICC officials: “Maine toh Symonds ko bola teri maa ki aur usne samajh liya monkey” 😉

  • Updates to Chennai Concerts Schedule

    The Music Season is slowly grinding to a halt. So what? Chennai is musically active throughout the year. Schedule of concerts till April 2008 has been updated at https://ramsabode.wordpress.com/concerts-in-chennai/ Details of more concerts will be added in the days to come. Happy listening !!!

  • Taare Zameen Par

    This is certainly one of the best movies I have watched in the recent times. A brilliant directorial debut by the very talented Aamir Khan, the movie is centered around a 8 year old dyslexic boy Ishaan Awasthi, played by Darsheel Safary. You would have to see the movie to…

  • Season Imsais – 2

    Some more imsais from last week’s concerts: The mami sitting next to me at a concert talks to some kin of hers back home: “Ennadi .. Anandham poyindirukka …. seri seri … apparam vandhu kadhai kettukkaren. Kolangal ku munnadi vandhuruven … seriya … phone-a vekkaren” (For the uninitiated, Anandham and…

  • Evano Oruvan

    There have been quite some movies in the past that have made me feel helpless and sometimes even question my very existence. But if there is one movie that has impacted me the most and literally made me cry, it is Nishikanth Kamath’s “Evano Oruvan”. Many hours have passed since…

  • “Aarar Asaipadar” DVD Released

    Charsur Digital Workstation released DVDs of Prasanna Ramaswamy’s “Aarar Asaipadar” (a documentary on Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan) a couple of days back just before the start of Sri Sanjay’s concert for Jaya TV/ Maximum Media’s Margazhi Maha Utsavam. Being die-hard fans of Sanjay, my good friend and I had been following…

  • Season Imsais – 1

    The music season is in full swing here in Chennai. Here are some “imsais” from the first few days …… Mrudangam artist keeps his instrument vertical and taps on the right side with the palm of his hand to lower the pitch of the instrument a little bit. A mami…

  • Updates to the Chennai Music Season Schedule

    The Chennai Music Season schedule at https://ramsabode.wordpress.com/concerts-in-chennai/ has been updated to cover the following sabhas/series: Bharat Kalachar Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Brahma Gana Sabha Carnatica’s Samarpanam Series Chennai Fine Arts Indian Oil’s “Servo Swarangal” Kala Kruthi Kalakshetra Foundation Kalarasana Kartik Fine Arts Meenakshi Sundararajan Fine Arts Academy Mudhra Music Education Trust…

  • Concerts in Chennai – November 2007

    Schedule of Carnatic music concerts in Chennai for the month of November 2007 (and other months till January 2008) has been updated at https://ramsabode.wordpress.com/concerts-in-chennai/ More concerts have been included in the December Season Schedule as well (on the same page). Will add the schedules of a few more sabhas when…

  • Jab We Met

    I was very skeptical when my friend “O” suggested this movie. I was not sure I wanted to watch a Kareena starrer, that too a show on the first day. But we decided to take the risk the moment he said Imtiaz Ali was the director and also because I…

  • Sanjay & TMK Mania

    Sanjay (Subrahmanyan) & TMK (T.M.Krishna) mania continues for me unabated. The first half of September was spent immersed in TMK’s music. The latter half of the month saw Sanjay performing a string of concerts while TMK toured outside Chennai and I just went from one concert to another, merrily lapping…