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  1. The day the music and lyrics died

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    / February 11, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Imagine this : What if Sachin scores the hundredth hundred in the next game? Will people claim it is because of the luck brought by Sachin Anthem? The mere thought of such a situation becoming reality is very much possible and I hope it doesn’t happen. Hope he scores in...

  2. Shankar Mahadevan to teach music at L&T

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    / January 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Music composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan’s academy has entered into a partnership with Larsen & Toubro to teach their employees music.The academy already runs several courses both in the real and in the virtual world and this jugalbandi for sure, will make work at the construction giant a lot of...

  4. Bookmarking memory with songs

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    / December 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Parthasarathy ‘Songs are bookmarks in our memory’ was the starting line in a magazine article. That line gave me the idea of searching my memory for those special songs, songs that resonated extraordinarily with me for one reason or another. I decided to select songs which are not necessarily...

  5. Hooked to Mix

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    / November 27, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By G Mohan Sometime last week, while aimlessly surfing channels, I hit upon a new music channel – Sony Mix. I have been going to that channel, more often than any other. In short, I am getting hooked to it. Mix is not the first Hindi music channel. Yet, it...

  6. The lighter side of Carnatic music

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    / November 25, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Parthasarathy I am listening to a composition in Nadanamakriya ragam by Ranjani and Gayatri. I’d just completed `The Economic Times’ crossword and the five-star Sudoku in `The Hindu’. I am in front of my netbook compiling a cryptic crossword in Tamil. Just then Yamadoot comes calling. I signal him...

  7. Why this Kolaveri Kolaveri Kolaveri Di

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    / November 21, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By T S Sudhir For the past four days `Kolaveri’ odu tollai taangalai on my twitter timeline. Most tweets asking what is this Kolaveri and what does the word `Kolaveri’ mean, weren’t seductive enough for me to go google, especially when Tamil isn’t exactly one of my strong points. I...

  8. Lata, the nightingale of India

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    / September 28, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Bala   Blessed are those Indians who were born in the 1950s and are living in India and abroad now, since they had grown listening to the honey dewed voice of Lata Mangeshkar. I too belong to this generation. The experience of not only listening to her songs as...

  9. Singing in Telugu

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    / August 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Santosh Kumar  Telugu, of an unmatched sonic beauty, is very very sweet. If Saraswati had to speak, she’d choose Telugu. I would have said this even if Telugu was not my mother tongue. There is some kind of divine purity to this language. At least phonetically. I use divine...

  10. Meri awaaz hi pehchaan hai

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    / July 13, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Jayarama Emani There was a time in the Indian film industry when listeners could identify a singer by his/her voice. From great stage-cum-playback singers like K L Saigal (hindi), P Bhanumathi and S Varalaxmi (telugu) to playback singers like Mukesh, Talat Mahmood, Mohd. Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey (hindi)...

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