Debapriya and Samanwaya engaged the audience with their blissful presentation of Raag Marwa accompanied on the tabla by Sydney’s very own tabla player Nikhil Harishchandrakar. The programme while sparsely attended made for a cosy evening at the Canada Bay Civic…
Author: Sumathi
Time Never Sleeps
Boring !! is a word which has no place in the dictonary of a creative mind for their battle is only with one thing Time !! To catch up with time. For how can one catch up with time that…
A Song a Day, A Dollar a Dream
When I happened to find myself in the same room as the man behind the label, Suresh Gopalan the founder of Charsur Digital Work Station out popped the question “So whats Hot at Charsur Studios in Chennai these days?”…
The Buck Stops Here !!
A popular Australian channel in Sydney in one of its featured programmes did a segment on Indian Dance. The only recommendation they could provide its millions of viewers is of a particularly westernised bollywood dance school. Whilst there is nothing…
The King and Us
Directed by Walter Lang in 1956 the musical ‘King and I’ is a famous classic starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, where the plot surrounds an English Governess who visits Siam to teach English to the Prince of Siam…
Michael Jackson’s connection to Indian Classical Arts
There has been so much said about Michael Jackson in the media this week that I thought for a while do I need to join this crowd? But I can hold it back no more. There is a connection between the King…
In Memory of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Not so long ago, I rang the Ali Akbar Khan School of Music hopeful of getting in touch with Ali Akbar Khan Saheb. A musician of whom I had heard a lot from my own musical guide and teacher,…