Kshetrayya, Tagore, Thampi & More
 While everyone has favourites, be it an artist or songs, we still look for something new. This sometimes comes from outside the world of music and composers – from vernacular poets. While Bharathi and Aandal in Tamil or Basavanna in Kannada and Tukaram in Marathi have gained popularity on stage – we are seeing ever more poetry being set to music and brought to stage. So the works of Malayali poet Irayimman Thampi, Telugu padam creator Kshetrayya or even Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore are helping classical music reach a wider audience. Read more here. |
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Chitra Srikrishna 