Many years back when I was learning up songs of GNB my Guru taught me Nee valayinche in the ragam Chayaranjani. This song was not in...

Here is a link to a review of my recent Sydney concert tha appeared online http://sydhwaney.com/swaralaya-festival-of-music-2011-part-1/...

Ok here is some more gyan on the above issue as requested by a commenter. The first point is that the mela-janya scheme in the current...

The mela-janya relationship between ragas has been in existence for a long time. However in the last 100-150 years there has been a shift...

As a young and upcoming musician in the late eighties I have for long heard experts talk about ragas being classified as ‘scale’ ragas...

I was just going through some old journals of the Music academy and came upon the article on Abheri by Amy Catlin, the American...

Please refer my earlier post about Abheri/Pantuvarali where there was a discussion about the origin of these ragas and their...

I thought I’ll post something more technical for a change. Last December in the Music Academy, I had sung an RTP and called it Abheri....