Wanted to share with Rasikas the link to a lec dem I gave recently. It is in Kannada language, but because of the music material, it should be understandable to others as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF9i389t-gk
A lec-dem about compositions of Dr Balamuralikrishna
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ramakriya
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thanjavooran
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Re: A lec-dem about compositions of Dr Balamuralikrishna
Excellent share. Quite understand able. Enjoyed kalyani kriti a lot. Many thanks for the link. With wishes.
Thanjavooran
27 01 2022
Thanjavooran
27 01 2022
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ramakriya
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Re: A lec-dem about compositions of Dr Balamuralikrishna
Thanks a lot, Thanjavooran _/|\_thanjavooran wrote: ↑27 Jan 2022, 04:25 Excellent share. Quite understand able. Enjoyed kalyani kriti a lot. Many thanks for the link. With wishes.
Thanjavooran
27 01 2022
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shankarank
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Re: A lec-dem about compositions of Dr Balamuralikrishna
Since , we were debating about languages in general. I tried listening for a while ( then 3 years back) and I could not understand it.
So much is made about this Hindi , anti-Hindi stuff in TN. Even within the same family, it is very hard to understand any other language!
I am not sure about other states , whether they can understand tamizh. I cannot understand Telugu or Kannada or Malayalam.
I can understand Hindi because of some training in school, it was a CBSE curriculum, before all of them folded to convert to Matriculation , another stream run by the TN state, due to lack of ability of students to score well in CBSE affecting their future.
I still cannot speak Hindi. Co-workers from all four southern states ( let say the diaspora for e.g.) have to converse in English and without that, no integration is possible even within the four states, forget all of India.
Tamizh land is very very different and the language is far removed from anything else in India, this despite loan words etc.
The Smartas and Brahmins at large, lived a separate but co-existing culture , completely distinct from that of the others.
Let that sink in!
So much was made of their mis pronunciations and even my own mistypes of Telugu in this forum, without knowing this.
When we say Mother tongue , in English it is an anthropological term with some ordinary meaning, a survival trait!
If we view it through the lens of Vedic system, language is Sabda pramANa , that is what "Mother tongue" means. Ain't the mother regarded as the first Guru even in Upanishads?
So much is made about this Hindi , anti-Hindi stuff in TN. Even within the same family, it is very hard to understand any other language!
I am not sure about other states , whether they can understand tamizh. I cannot understand Telugu or Kannada or Malayalam.
I can understand Hindi because of some training in school, it was a CBSE curriculum, before all of them folded to convert to Matriculation , another stream run by the TN state, due to lack of ability of students to score well in CBSE affecting their future.
I still cannot speak Hindi. Co-workers from all four southern states ( let say the diaspora for e.g.) have to converse in English and without that, no integration is possible even within the four states, forget all of India.
Tamizh land is very very different and the language is far removed from anything else in India, this despite loan words etc.
The Smartas and Brahmins at large, lived a separate but co-existing culture , completely distinct from that of the others.
Let that sink in!
That is a bit unfair! Brahmin singers have some samskrit in their sounds ( again most will not understand samskrit - it there only as Sabda) and can pickup words in the compositions when taught orally.https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/ ... 356430.ece
That said, very few musicians whose mother tongue is not Tamil sing in the language while the opposite is not true.
So much was made of their mis pronunciations and even my own mistypes of Telugu in this forum, without knowing this.
When we say Mother tongue , in English it is an anthropological term with some ordinary meaning, a survival trait!
If we view it through the lens of Vedic system, language is Sabda pramANa , that is what "Mother tongue" means. Ain't the mother regarded as the first Guru even in Upanishads?