Category: art
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Indian Classical music- The alcohol without alcohol
People are behind alcohol because it relieves. It relieves you of all your worries. Though this state is temporary, people starve for it. it is just like running behind the shadow. Alcohol creates the shadow and people run behind it.Duty of any art is to realize the situation; to make people happy without deluding them.Indian…
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Famous musicians of India #2
Ustaad Allauddin Khan It was a noon time.A poor man was trying to sell his sub standard music drums called as Dafli which are played with the help of hands.He was merely successful in doing go.Along with him were sitting his poor children waiting for a customer;if he buys the drum they are going to…
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Famous Musicians of India #1
I am very pleased to announce that for the first time I am starting a new series here on this blog.The series is named as Famous Musicians of India.India can be considered as birth place of music.Thousands of years ago Vedas were sung in musical notes.From there originated the concept of Sura(note) and Taal(Tempo or…
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Rhythm Divine:Myth or Truth
There are many things which at first sight seem absurd and unbelievable, but at the root lies very simple reason.India is quite famous for producing such personalities whose skills have been underestimated as myths.One of such personality is Taansen, the legendary singer. The fact about Taansen is that when he used to sing, all the…
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The Hindu : Arts / Music : My First Break: Pandit Ravi Shankar
The Hindu : Arts / Music : My First Break: Pandit Ravi Shankar.
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Divine Strings……
In india one can find thousands of stringed instruments.All these instruments were collectively called as Veena.One of the very famous stringed instruments of all these Veenas is Sarod.In India Sarod has been played by many famous players which were praised internationally. The most famous and most profound Sarod player from India was Ustad Allauddin Khan.Allauddin…
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Raaga Charukeshi……
The one thing I love most about Indian classical music is that, each Raaga has a soul in it.It is not that a Raaga is only a combination of notes,but apart from it, it has a soul.The job of artist is to discover this soul,to make it apparent.Each Raaga has something to say to you-something…
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Make it simpler…….
With very much of efforts,I got a book which I wanted to read and was searching for it for an year.The book is,”Thus spoke Zarathustra’,written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.One thing I love about the book is that it is simple…so simple that even a child can read and understand it. The book speaks about…
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Hariprasad Chaurasia…….the divine showers….
I love rains…..rains are divine…..but yesterday night,they got an added bit of divinity…The divinity of divine flute of pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. The Auditorium was flooded with the crowd as expected and many of them were striving to get the tickets.Soon after a while,the the flute brought the message ….the message of clouds…..that they are…