Archives: December, 2009

B.S. Purushotham is the most sought after Kanjira player today. He has studied under Bangalore ML Veerabhadraiah, Sri V. Praveen and Sangitha Kalanidhi TK Murthy. He has accompanied leading artists like KV Narayanaswamy, M.Balamuralikrishna, Lalgudi Jayaraman, and others. He has traveled around the world and performed in major festivals including Adelaide World Music Festival, World Drummers Meet Stockholm and the Hanover World Expo 2000.

B.R.S. Sreenag is just 23 but has already made his entry into the world of photography.His book Ganesha – The Source of Light is a unique collection of Lord Vignesh in various forms. This Visual communication graduate from Loyala college has been into photography right from his childhood.coming from a family of photographers,Sreenag ventured into the field with complete zeal and enthusiasm.This youngster is a professional photographer and specialises in architecture and industrial photography.

It was some time in 1987. This 5-year-old boy affectionately called Charan at home was coaxed by his grandparents Sikkil Sisters to sing any tune. After quite a bit of cajoling, he sang a popular film number. His grandparents especially Smt Neela was amazed at the “sruthi sudhham” or tonal perfection in his singing and also the near-perfect alignment of the notes. Together they decided that he must pursue vocal music. Almost every second member in the family had taken up flute. Hence they were insistent that at least this boy should pursue a different art form namely singing, as he had already shown immense promise at that age.”

Kannan is a music composer; his compositions include quite a few Tillanas. He assisted his aunt in her music direction for the TV Documentary Serial "Bharatiya Natya Sastra" which has been widely acclaimed as a "Magnum Opus" he was also the Production and Financial Controller for the above said film. He also assisted his aunt in composing music for the dance programme "Ritu Mahatmiyam"