Chennai | Attend this symposium of art, science, and knowledge to learn from the experts

Chennai | Attend this symposium of art, science, and knowledge to learn from the experts

The bigger fish such as Vanjiram come from Kasimedu while prawns come from Pulicat | Photo Credit: RAVINDRAN R Often when we say that someone is educated, what we mean is literate. Because knowledge has multiple sources and formal education is just one of many. If there is ever an opportunity to gain more than […]

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Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

In the late 1980s, when I was around 12 years old and trying to listen to every classical music concert in town, the often-heard lament was about declining audiences and that those who did attend were older people. The fear was that, once a few generations passed, the art form would fade away. The conservatives […]

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Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

In the late 1980s, when I was around 12 years old and trying to listen to every classical music concert in town, the often-heard lament was about declining audiences and that those who did attend were older people. The fear was that, once a few generations passed, the art form would fade away. The conservatives […]

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Where’s the diversity in Indian classical music, asks T.M. Krishna

Where’s the diversity in Carnatic music, asks T.M. Krishna

In the late 1980s, when I was around 12 years old and trying to listen to every classical music concert in town, the often-heard lament was about declining audiences and that those who did attend were older people. The fear was that, once a few generations passed, the art form would fade away. The conservatives […]

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A new music video in support of the ‘Save Ennore Creek’ campaign

A new music video in support of the ‘Save Ennore Creek’ campaign

A new video, ‘Drums of Resistance’, to be launched tomorrow, highlights a socio- environmental problem ‘Drums of Resistance’, to be launched tomorrow, highlights a socio- environmental problem FR Team Call it activist art or community art, but when a performance looks beyond stage, audience and structure to find a larger purpose of connecting with common […]

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