ಮಾನವನ ಜೀವವಿಕಾಸದ ಹಾದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸ್ವಾದನೆಯ ಮಟ್ಟಕ್ಕೇರಿದ ಕಲೆಗಳ ಪೈಕಿ ಚಿತ್ರವು ಮೊದಲನೆಯದಾದರೆ, ಶಿಲ್ಪ ಎರಡನೆಯ ಅತಿ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ. ಆಯಾಯ ಕಾಲದ ಆಸ್ವಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಲೀನವಾಗುವ ಗಾನ, ನಾಟ್ಯಗಳನ್...
Tyāgarāja's Darini telusukonti is my favorite kṛti in the rāga Śuddhasāveri. Many others have also composed songs in this rāga. In fact, there are sev...
Grahabedha is an interesting as well as a mesmerising facet of music. The science behind Grahabedha is very simple. The terminology becomes clear if it is calle...
Hindola is one of my favourite rāgas. The equivalent of Hindola in the Hindustani system is a rāga called Malkauns. Many feel that the manner in which it is ren...
For a cricket-crazed nation like India, we do not have to wait long before a cricket series starts, grooves us in to a sway of emotions, and causes a deluge of...
Around 1925-26, I had been to Delhi to undertake a political study--to gain knowledge about the condition, status, and the future of India's Princely States. I...
This is the second part of the two-part article published on the occasion of the 2018 Tyāgarāja Ārādhana Utsavam, which falls on today's date. — Editors Bhakt...
Prekshaa is glad to bring out a special two-part article on the occasion of Tyāgarāja Ārādhana 2018, which falls on January 6th this year. This also happens to...
This article is based on Ramaa Bharadvaj’s illustrative talk on June 18, 2017 at the workshop on Vyāsa, Vālmīki, Kālidāsa, and Guṇāḍhya at Chinmaya Internationa...
This article is based on Ramaa Bharadvaj’s illustrative talk on June 18, 2017 at the workshop on Vyāsa, Vālmīki, Kālidāsa, and Guṇāḍhya at Chinmaya Internationa...
A reasonable place to assess the overall contribution of K Viswanath to Indian cinema is the 1976 musical and social blockbuster, Siri Siri Muvva. That film in...
--- I --- In the preface to his classic Tabbaliyu Neenaade Magane (My Son, You are Orphaned), Dr. S L Bhyrappa remarks that although the story in his novel unfo...