Quotes – L through P
Humility does not consist in hiding our talents and virtues, in thinking ourselves worse and more ordinarily than we are, but in possessing a clear knowledge of all that is…
Quotes F through K
Quotes On Mythology, Spirituality, and Religion In Christ, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free man, male nor female." The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it,…
Quotes A through E
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. (Douglas Adams) A beggar, Lord, I ask of Thee More than a thousand kings could ask. Each…
Music with mistakes
“Many performers have been performing Bach for years without experiencing for themselves the deepening that Bach is capable of bringing out in any true artist. Most of our singers are…
Music, the food of love & and war?
Music producer-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin appears to think so. In his latest book, The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, he discusses how music has…
Carnatic Music – Lyrics or Musical Experience?
In December, I took my annual pilgrimage to Chennai to attend the concerts and lecture-demonstrations that take place during the music season. In at least two of the lecture demonstrations,…
Demystifying Carnatic Music and Widening the Rasika Base
‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.’ —John Keats Over the years, Carnatic music scholars, as well as critics, have written about the declining interest among the younger…
Clevelandil Thiruvayaru
The auditorium was filled with men, women, and children dressed in their best Indian attire. On the stage were seated stalwarts of Carnatic music such as Chitraveena Ravikiran, Neyveli Santhanagopalan,…
Religions – Changing with the world
The advancements in science and technology have brought the peoples of the world closer to each other. With instantaneous access to information about world events, we are now able to…
Religion, not just faith but understanding
The premise of the article, Religions Changing with the World" (published in Chennai_Live_News), was that religions should be uniting forces. However, both past and recent atrocities committed in the name…