Carnatic Artists Blogs

manikand28 · Post by **manikand28** » 02 Oct 2008, 04:42

Can we have a collection of blogs by carnatic artists?
I know
http://sanjaysub.blogspot.com/
http://gayathrigirish.blogspot.com/

How many maintain a moderately active blog?

rupavati · Post by **rupavati** » 02 Oct 2008, 07:54

Sowmya, one of my favorite artistes, has a photography blog!
http://musicianseye.aminus3.com

And a general blog with concert schedules and occasional posts:
http://sowmya.carnatica.net/blog

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 02 Oct 2008, 13:59

Wow! Her art extends well beyond music!

Delighted to see that she photographs birds too.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 02 Oct 2008, 20:39

Nick,
Yes, an artistic artiste.
When the eggs hatch, we would find out if they are Chennai city crows or suburban crows, with your help. I still can't forget your impersonating both kinds with the differences in their cawing!

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 02 Oct 2008, 21:08

you can find (very) occasional articles at www.tmkrishna.com so I am not sure it qualifies as a blog but schedules are updated with reasonable frequency

aparnavraman · Post by **aparnavraman** » 02 Oct 2008, 22:11

Concert Schedule,Reviews,Books,Audio/Video samples of Carnatica Brothers' (K.N.Shashikiran & P.Ganesh) are available from their web site http://www.carnaticabrothers.com
The site is maintained and upadated on a regular basis. Link to their blog is available from the website.

Aparna Venkataraman

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 03 Oct 2008, 10:20

http://seetha-narayanan.sulekha.com/blog/posts.htm

saadhyaa · Post by **saadhyaa** » 04 Oct 2008, 05:33

Trichur brothers have also come out with their blog
http://trichurbrothers.blogspot.com/
which makes interesting reading..

saadhyaa

violinrasika · Post by **violinrasika** » 13 Oct 2008, 09:58

NSG's blog:
http://guruneyveli.blogspot.com/

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 14 Oct 2008, 17:31

The Carnatica brothers' blog is now here: http://brothers.carnatica.net/blog/

tkb · Post by **tkb** » 14 Oct 2008, 18:03

The blogs http://keyboardsathya.blogspot.com is one which Sathya writes his observation mostly on his private concerts and http://carnaticonkeyboard.blogspot.com is the one i maintain about public concerts.

Rgds TKB

Suryaprakash · Post by **Suryaprakash** » 16 Oct 2008, 23:03

My dear rasika siromanis!

here is my new blog. Please share your views with me on all topics under the sun..

http://suryamusic.blogspot.com/

I wish to continue to post in the ever amazing rasikas.org even as I look up to with awe, the postings of some of my colleagues, who might even be contenders for Booker Prize if they sit down to write books...

with warm regards

Suryaprakash R

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 17 Oct 2008, 08:06

HI, Ashwin.rohin ,Is your blog Toronto [email protected]?pl confirm.I read from your mom's mail about your performances at 3 major sabhas at krishnagana sabha.,naradaganasabha, Parthasarathi swami sabha. best of luck. Mohan(kamalamba) from singapore will be at chennai as usual for the last part of dec Balu mama (GOBILALITHA)

coolkapali · Post by **coolkapali** » 17 Oct 2008, 13:02

Quite a few brothers out there. Good, its always nice to hear two voices in synch....

ShrutiLaya · Post by **ShrutiLaya** » 17 Oct 2008, 16:47

Ranjani and Gayatri have a blog at http://ranjanigayatri.blogspot.com where they had been posting impressions of their US tour concerts, but it seems to have stopped with the Shruti Laya concert weekend .. maybe they'll fill the rest in after their return ..

anandabhairavi · Post by **anandabhairavi** » 18 Feb 2009, 14:17

I just came across the new updated website of Sikkil Gurucharan and I found it smarter.Browse on !!

http://www.sikkilgurucharan.com/

with his old and new blogs

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 18 Feb 2009, 19:51

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 18 Feb 2009, 19:56

And there's Charulatha Mani's website:
www.charulathamani.com

vijisubra · Post by **vijisubra** » 19 Feb 2009, 09:15

I've posted some of my published articles on my website-- www.vijayalakshmysubramaniam.com

Would love a feedback.....

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 19 Feb 2009, 16:50

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 26 Feb 2009, 10:57

Dear Members

http://mannarkoilbalaji.blogspot.com/

This is my blog .. which i hv recently created. It is under construction

JB

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 26 Feb 2009, 13:19

Read you blog (Vijalayalshmi madam) - was very nice. Will check out Sri Balaji's as well.

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 26 Feb 2009, 14:22

The Carnatica Brothers have resumed blogging at http://carnaticabrothers.blogspot.com/

The blog now has their updated concert schedule, audio clippings and articles on music issues by Shri Shashikiran.

sappri · Post by **sappri** » 28 Feb 2009, 16:07

Came across is this interesting blog of Vid G Ravikiran - swanubhoga.blogspot.com

karthikbala · Post by **karthikbala** » 02 Mar 2009, 12:50

srinivasrgvn wrote:And there's Charulatha Mani's website:
www.charulathamani.com

Charulatha's website should be incorporating a blog section soon...

rao · Post by **rao** » 22 Apr 2009, 11:33

http://www.egayathri.blogspot.com/ is the veena vidushi's blog,you would be surprised,really!!!!!!!!!

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 22 Apr 2009, 20:43

Thanks Rao for the link. Yes quite scholarly and analytical.

Her latest blog article talks about Soundarya Lahari 69th sloka which is quite relevant musicologically.

"Gale Rekhaasthishro gathi-gamaka geethaika nipune
Vivaaha-vyaanaddha pragunaguna sankhyaa prathibhuvaha
Viraajanthe naanaavidha madhura raaga karabhuvaam
Thrayaanaam graamaanaam sthithi niyama seemaana iva the."

Literal meaning-"O Mistress of the musical modes,modulations and songs!The three lines on Thy neck indicating the number of strings in the auspicious cord
fastened at the time of Thy wedding,shine like boundaries demarcating the three musical scales_or graamaas consisting of sadja,madhyama,and
gandhaara)which form the source of the various melodies of musical notes."

When was Soundarya Lahari composed? Is there a consensus on the authorship and timeframe?

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 23 Apr 2009, 03:06

Authorship is undisputed (at least for the first part) - Sri Adi Sankara

bhaktha · Post by **bhaktha** » 23 Apr 2009, 07:02

vasanthakokilam wrote: When was Soundarya Lahari composed? Is there a consensus on the authorship and timeframe?

The soundarya lahiri actually consists of two parts viz. the ananda lahiri and the soundarya lahiri (the two are jointly referred to as the soundarya lahiri). It is believed that the 100 verses were originally composed by vinayaka. When Adi shankara goes to kailasha (via the sookshma sharira/subtle "body"), he gets to read only the first 41 verses. The rest are taken away by ganesha, who fears that the secrets of kailasha might reach the earth. These 41 verses are collectively called the ananda lahiri. Shankara then (through the grace of parvati) composes the rest (59 shlokas). The soundarya lahiri as we know it today is thus an amalgam of the ananda lahiri and the soundarya lahiri.

venkatam · Post by **venkatam** » 25 May 2009, 10:20

Hats off to Veena Gayathri's blog,Jasmine Strings.What a fantastic range of subjects she is dealing with,her blog is as great as her veena! Her blog is making waves like her veena,simply superb writing!!

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 25 May 2009, 12:30

Indeed, Veena Gayatri is "bhUmikku vandha saraswathi" which means Saraswathi having descended on earth in the form of Veena Gayathri. This was written in "Dina Mani" once.
That is why I have included her as one of the judges in my series. =)

mohini · Post by **mohini** » 20 Jul 2009, 01:58

Jasmine strings ,blog of Veena Gayathri is a so good,I admire the way she links everything to music. Her information is scholarly!Even Gayathri Girish's blog is very informative and interesting!

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 20 Jul 2009, 03:00

Gayathri Girish - husky and attractive voice

priyaram78 · Post by **priyaram78** » 20 Jul 2009, 11:03

she is on twitter too www.twitter.com/gayathrigirish

balusatya · Post by **balusatya** » 19 Aug 2009, 01:58

vijisubra wrote:I've posted some of my published articles on my website-- www.vijayalakshmysubramaniam.com
Would love a feedback.....

It looks she has sung for" Periar" film music.audio sample available.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 04 Sep 2009, 17:00

I've listed these artiste blogs at http://www.carnaticcorner.com/artistpages.html#blogs

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 30 Sep 2009, 07:02

We have covered quite a few artistes' blogs but we have forgotten to include one exemplary artiste!

It is our own Erode Nagaraj sir!

His blog is accessible through http://erodenagaraj.blogspot.com/