These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

A few of my favorite bhajans. Please share your favorites DISCLAIMER: raaga association is my understanding and may be totally off, don’t blame me if you are not awarded “Sangeetha Kalanidhi” because you trusted my opinion! Now, leave the awards and titles, who cares, just enjoy the bhajans by clicking on the links. 1. Jaya […]

Raga and Emotions

Each raga evokes different emotions when it’s played/heard. Here is a small list of ragas associated with appropriate emotions. This is quite interesting to me because each raga although has its own emotion tied to it in a generic sense, to a large degree, I think it also depends on the listener’s mental state. For […]

A Song And A Raaga

When you think of a raaga do you right away think of a song or bhajan? It happens to me all the time, I think of Hamsadhwani and even before I complete the thought the bhajan Maha Ganapathe Namosthuthe pops up in my mind. The moment Sindhubhairavi passes my mind, I think of Jaya Panduranga […]

The raagabox Story

A few people have asked me to share how raagabox started. It’s just a small short story, I write it here for anyone curious or looking for inspiration – One day an young man, Akash, sang a beautiful bhajan Hey Krishna at the Boston Sai Center that I attend frequently. Akash and I had known […]