Chitra Swaminathan | The Hindu | 1 month ago

Rajeev Chaurasia’s documentary Bansuri Guru sums up Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia’s life and music

A. Shrikumar | The Hindu | 1 month ago

Grab the extra dose of entertainment at the anniversary celebrations of Vishaal De Mal

The Hindu | 1 month ago

Sri Krishna Gana Sabha celebrated International Theatre Artists Day on March 27 by honouring veteran theatre artists. Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti, President SKGS, welcomed the gathering and introdu...

G. Swaminathan | The Hindu | 1 month ago

Concert Ranjani and Gayatri framed their thematic concert with focus on various aspects found in the Bhagavad Gita.

Nita Vidyarthi | The Hindu | 1 month ago

Centenary Celebration of Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali,’ which won the Nobel Prize 100 years ago, was marked by recitations and music.

Vidya Saranyan | The Hindu | 1 month ago

Saroja Vaidyanathan’s calm demeanour reflects the collective experiences of her years as a renowned Bharatanatyam artist, a well-respected teacher, author, choreographer and the founder-president...

Ankita Mitra | The Hindu | 1 month ago

Lights, camera and action! The words are enough to create a stir in the heart of an actor, whether a theatre artist or a silver screen star. Jahilesh Jain, a theatre veteran from Bhopal, dreams th...

Tapati Chowdurie | The Hindu | 1 month ago

The Dol Utsav at Santiniketan saw an aesthetic performance of Tagore’s dance drama “Shapmochan”

Pheroze L. Vincent | The Hindu | 1 month ago

Akshara Theatre’s “Anasakti: Gandhi’s Gita” was more informative than dramatic

Leela Venkataraman | The Hindu | 1 month ago

With the 15th National Festival of Creative Arts adding a range of art forms, some wondered if space for dance is shrinking further

Sushma Somasekharan | Sruti | 1 month ago

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Gita Sankaran | Sruti | 2 months ago

'A life that touches others oes on forever.' One such life was celebrated by family and friends in the Remembrance Meet for Manna Srinivasan held on 2nd March at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha’s Nalli Gana Vihar hall in Chennai...

Arundhathi Krishnan | Sruti | 2 months ago

After the conclusion of the Madras music season, IIT Madras Music Club has been host to Youthfest 2013, its annual series for the up and coming faces of Carnatic music. This year’s line-up included...

Ranjani Sivakumar Siddareddy | Sruti | 2 months ago

This song will definitely find an important place in the nostalgia trips of those who grew up in the 1980s. Most of us then owned a copy of this Bhadrachala Ramadasu cassette...

Sushma Somasekharan | Sruti | 2 months ago

RR speaks about his music with ardour, and the confidence he exudes in his answers is inspiring...

Meena Banerjeee | Sruti | 2 months ago

Widespread illiteracy amongst North Indian artist clans, trapped in the socially and politically disturbed medieval period, did away with the vital Indian tradition of questioning in order to attain knowledge. Asking questions was banned and blind faith became an unchallenged requisite...

Sharan Mamidipudi | Sruti | 2 months ago

He sang in the morning, sang to the dying stars; he sang to his whitewashed walls, his own voice bouncing off them; he sang for his morning coffee, one-and-a-half tea-spoons of sugar; he sang for spring, for leaves that twirled and girls who flowered with the blooming chrysanthemums...

V Shankaranarayanan | Sruti | 2 months ago

Sandy and Vicky go back a long way with one deep rooted, strong passion - Classical Music. Even with an active work life, if there was one thing that they never missed, it was singing and listening to Carnatic music. They had been drilled and soaked with almost three decades of music...

Samudri | Sruti | 2 months ago

Saroja Kamakshi, mother of Bharatanatyam artiste and guru Malavika Sarukkai, passed away at their Chennai residence yesterday, 4 February 2013...

Rama Varma | Sruti | 2 months ago

He had travelled most of the day and now the car had broken down. They were still about a hundred kilometres from the city. For a while, he breathed in the final, lingering coolness of the AC. The award ceremony was later tonight; Sangita Kalanidhi, Sangeeta Samrat, he couldn’t remember what exactly the title was...

M Ramakrishnan | Sruti | 2 months ago

Rama Varma was in Chennai recently to conduct a two-day workshop (9 and 10 February 2013) ‘Swarasadhana,’ at the Satyananda Yoga Center at Triplicane. Here he speaks of the event, his journey in classical music and his thoughts on the changing trends of the art form...

Samudri | Sruti | 2 months ago

Chennai’s Prakriti Foundation has announced the annual Festival of Sacred Music at Tiruvaiyaru. The festival this year will feature the following performances. 1 March 2013 at the courtyard of an old Maratha palace...