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Veejay Sai is a well-known award-winning writer, editor and a culture critic. He has written and published extensively on Indian classical music, theatre, food, travel, fashion and performing arts. He loves traveling and researching literary and cultural history. He can be contacted on veejaysai.vs@gmail.com

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Madame Mozart –
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by Veejay Sai

Being born and brought up into a family of musicians has its own advantages which no one can ever discredit from any musician. While there have been several examples of how................

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Veejay Sai reviews latest Music CDs.

No auspicious ceremony in the south ever starts without a few strains of the traditional ‘Nagaswaram’. Think of the instrument and the first person who comes to mind is the great vidwan Sheik Chinna Maulana. One of the............

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Two Men and Music

Book review by Veejay Sai

There is almost no post-colonial academic literature available on Indian classical music. Most of the books on music have often been song books with notations, ......

Two Men and Music.

Music cd review of Jayashri Ramnath, Unnikrishnan and Manjunath / Nagaraj

The mysore brothers are back again with a bang and this time with some excellent music for a lighter hearing. Mysore M.Nagaraj and Dr.M.Manjunath need to introduction to the world of violin music. Early in the public media..

Mysore Brothers
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It was the summer of 2004. Far away in Reunion Island, off the Mauritius coast was one of the biggest music festivals ever held in the world. Artists from all over flocked to showcase their talent. The great violin maestro Dr.L.Subramaniam was........

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The IRC Sangeet Research Academy is one of the few places in the country which has been doing genuine service to the promotion, growth and development of classical music. Highly acclaimed in the west, by western scholars, ..........

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It was the summer of 1956 and SVN had made all his efforts to bring down the great Ustad Bade GhulamAli Khan saab down to Bangalore for the .........

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Veejay Sai in
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The declining popularity of Sarangi on the Hindustani classical concert stage was a great matter of concern in the last decade. Though a few apprehensive directors did manage to use this sophisticated instrument in their film projects,

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It is not often that someone easily casts a spell on you and it stays like a hangover for a long time after her dance performance. In south India, every other house has either a dancer or a musician undergoing tutoring even as you read this.

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Who would have imagined that a remote little village in Uttar Pradesh would become one of the most important ‘kshetras’ for learning , growth and development of Hindustani classical music, amid all the chaos India was going through in the earlier part of the 20th century. Like one has the divine trinity of composers in carnatic classical music, there aren’t any such in the Hindustani classical tradition.

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Lord Rama’s dancing army


Till about the mid-1960’s the Carnatic music scene didn’t know much nor sang the writings of Bhadrachala Ramadasu, the 17th century poet, saint and composer from Andhra Pradesh.

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Four Simmering Lights for Deepawali

On the occasion of Deepawali, the Upadhye school of dance organized their first ever edition of ‘Narthakarinda Nathakarigagi’ (for dancers, by dancers) at the ADA Ranga Mandira. One must see it to believe it, in spite of being a festival day; the hall was packed with rasikas, dancers, dance teachers, students and the like to enjoy an evening of four male dancers.

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