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IndrayaniKaathi: THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT MAINATAI*
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What is the blog about, if not mindless digression. Wednesday, June 15, 2016. THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT MAINATAI*. Well, the occasion was a music concert hosted in the august Yeshwantrao Chavan Auditorium Pune. The sole performer was, hold your breath, Swaryoginee. Dr Prabha Atre. She sang Shyam Kalyan. 35 mins), Madhu r. 34 mins), a dadra. And finally the hair-raising Bhairavi. Sung famously at Durbar, UK- jagatajanani bhavtarini mohini tu navadurga. Intonation in the prelude. The 82 year vidushi. The co...
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IndrayaniKaathi: JHINJHOTI: CINDERELLA RAGA
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What is the blog about, if not mindless digression. Friday, March 4, 2016. N abiding belief of IK. Has been that all songs are great, some great by birth, some which achieve greatness, and others which have greatness thrust upon them, ha, ha, ha…The ‘boring ragas’ with bright prospects we talked about in this post,. Of course, belong to the second category…. Is a raga not many would hold brief for. Jhinjhit. They say in Bangla. So much so that a friend of Missus, a knowledgeable and fine gayika. Out at a...
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IndrayaniKaathi: CHHOD SAKHI SARGAM!?
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What is the blog about, if not mindless digression. Wednesday, December 16, 2015. Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in Notes- Beethoven. He Jaipur Atrauli gharana. Is all over today, its farthest outpost 20 billion km. into interstellar space, manned by the Grand Lady of JA Pta. Kesarbai Kerkar (check out Golden Record. Had you not been adopted by Frank Thakurdas of The Players c/o KM College, you would have been selling soap-directly, I sayyy…. Panduranga, asude…. Over ...
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IndrayaniKaathi: FUSION: LAKMÈ TO PARAM VIR
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What is the blog about, if not mindless digression. Saturday, June 27, 2015. FUSION: LAKMÈ TO PARAM VIR. Some time back YT stopped watching Indian news channels out of sheer respect for his own intelligence or whatever is left of it. That leaves him with WWF and Nickelodeon … Therefore we are not in a position to know whether at all World Music Day found a mention in the annals of our august ‘channels’ this 21. By the Eagles (selling 15-20 million albums). It also won the 1987 Grammy…. We take a look her...
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IndrayaniKaathi: GOD'S OWN PORTRAITIST: RAJA RAVI VARMA (1/2)
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What is the blog about, if not mindless digression. Tuesday, September 1, 2015. GOD'S OWN PORTRAITIST: RAJA RAVI VARMA (1/2). That God created Man lies in the realm of conjecture, but the reverse is an empirically proven fact. Created Him in his, that is man’s, own image. An anthropomorphic God. Let’s undertake a little census. He, he, he…. Undoubtedly the Raja is the most sold painter ever, and el Ni. Mona Lisa, the most celebrated of paintings, pales into insignificance, going by the sheer number of pr...
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IndrayaniKaathi: FIRST INDIAN LADY IN SPACE: KESARBAI KERKAR
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What is the blog about, if not mindless digression. Friday, November 7, 2014. FIRST INDIAN LADY IN SPACE: KESARBAI KERKAR. Begins where that of Life ends. Now further poetic evidence comes from the saga of the Golden Record travelling on NASA’s Voyager, which was alluded to briefly in our previous entry. VOYAGER 1 WITH GOLDEN RECORD. In 1977 NASA launched the Voyager 1&2 missions. The exercise had a something to do with Carl Sagan’s SETI. DID NOT CROSS PATHS. The samples of music include the creations of...
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IndrayaniKaathi: THE KALEIDOSCOPIC SWARA
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What is the blog about, if not mindless digression. Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Walk, if asked to recollect the sequence its 1000 feet follow-CvB. Pta Kishori Amonkar is quite particular about methodical study of our. We may have read the. And even understood them, and yet if there is no connection between today’s music and the music propounded by. Why bother to study the. This question is asked by many, and.it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer.”. Rather than as part of Dhanashri angg. Born in ...
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IndrayaniKaathi: USTAD AHJ KHAN HAUNTS DAVE BRUBECK
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What is the blog about, if not mindless digression. Saturday, April 30, 2016. USTAD AHJ KHAN HAUNTS DAVE BRUBECK. విమానము. నిండిపోయింది. Hope YG reads that! In the meantime a new problem looms over the ageing skyline of what we call our mind. The writer is becoming a professional forgetter. Therefore now he shall attempt to publish his moronic views in shorter and more frequent bursts, lest some mindless digression be lost to the readership, that is himself, and to posterity, he, he, he. After the least ...
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IndrayaniKaathi: RAJA RAVI VARMA: PAINTER TO THE NATION (2/2)
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What is the blog about, if not mindless digression. Friday, September 11, 2015. RAJA RAVI VARMA: PAINTER TO THE NATION (2/2). Kilimanoor-the name has a magical ring no! Sounds uncannily like Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa! 1706-1758) was the greatest King of the Travancore state, the only Rajah in the whole of India who bested a European army (Dutch). Kilimanoor was under the sway of the Nair octet, the Ettuveetil Pillamar. The wicket gate and the massive doors are closed. The only photo-op ...
