A few music videos and music events have been added to the box over the weekend. In the events page, you can create new events by clicking the ‘Create an Event‘ button at the top right corner of the events window. We are introducing videos as a pilot. In the coming weeks we hope to […]

We recently added a lecture demonstration (lecdem) to the box, it’s by T.M. Krishna, he differentiates allied raagas, Nayaki and Darbar. Simply superb demonstration of knowledge and it feels like the whole lecdem was “spoken” in nayaki 🙂 Don’t miss it, listen now and enjoy.

We recently posted a lecture demonstration by Sowmya, Shashi Kiran, this lecdem took place in 2006 at IIT madras. Very beautiful session, a potpourri of discussion on several raagas with renditions. Check it out here, lecdem When did these lecdems originate? Where did they originate is still a question but one thing is certain, they […]

have you ever wondered why in the Indian communities the only music we seem to appreciate is music that our ancestors may have created 100s of years ago or filmy music which has been popularized. For instance, why is it that in all the music competitions such as sa re ga ma pa etc most […]

“One of my favorites. I’ve always liked listening to this song when rendered by Sanjay. Is this in Hindolam or Malkounce- the hindustani version.From bhajans standpoint, this sounds so similar to Raghupathe Raghava Raja rama which is in Malkounce but also similar to Kalyana rama aanandha rama.. which is in Hindolam. So much bhaava :)) […]

subbu and have discussed this in the past a few times, there are a few songs that sound very similar to a known abhang, perhaps they all have the same notes. do all of these songs belong to a single raaga? for example, shambho mahadeva, shankara naada sarira, heyo vittale, bala gopala and the list […]

I was wondering Veena is such a melodious string instrument but why is it not part of the common accompaniment in a carnatic concert? Any thoughts? Listen to the Veena rendition of sai bhajans by Durjati and Soundarya, you will have to agree that this instrument can be and should be used more often in […]