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T M Krishna returns to Music Academy stage, capping a year of upheaval for Carnatic landscape
December 27, 2024 10:51 pm
Earlier this month, the Madras High Court cleared the way for Krishna to receive the Sangita Kalanidhi M S Subbulakshmi Award after a legal battle that gripped Chennai’s cultural and legal circles.
Express view on T M Krishna row: SC order undermines artistic freedom
December 18, 2024 8:05 pm
Krishna has consistently pushed the boundaries of Carnatic music by questioning orthodoxy and advocating for diversity and social justice. Does his intellectual criticism of M S Subbulakshmi’s legacy undo his significant contributions to the artform?
TM Krishna should not be recognised as recipient of MS Subbulakshmi award: SC's interim order
December 17, 2024 7:43 am
Subbulakshmi’s grandson V Shrinivasan had approached the court challenging the decision to give the award to Krishna
Third edit: Honouring T M Krishna
November 21, 2024 10:58 am
While examining MS Subbulakshmi’s Devdasi roots, Krishna has asked whether she would have been accepted and embraced if she hadn’t “Brahminised” herself – should critique be considered slander?
The Sangita Kalanidhi and Carnatic music’s great divide
March 31, 2024 10:07 am
The Sangita Kalanidhi is not only well-deserved. It’s also a message to the divided world of Carnatic classical music to look within.
T M Krishna row shows how hard it is to weed out caste orthodoxy in Carnatic music today
March 23, 2024 10:13 am
The institution managed to surpass an earlier Dravidian challenge without too much internalisation. The current opposition is more difficult to handle as it comes from within
How TM Krishna’s Sangita Kalanidhi title is polarising carnatic music
March 24, 2024 12:30 pm
Many Carnatic musician including Ranjani and Gayathri duo, Chitraveena Ravikiran, and Triuchur Brothers have boycott the upcoming Music Academy Conference as TM Krishna will preside over it.
TM Krishna conferred with Sangita Kalanidhi title: Carnatic musicians Ranjani, Gayatri withdraw from Music Academy Conference, Chitravina Ravikiran returns award
March 21, 2024 4:37 pm
The Madras Music Academy conferring its prestigious title “Sangita Kalanidhi” for 2024 has polarised both the senior artistes and the audiences
The longlist for the NIF-Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize is announced
September 16, 2021 3:15 pm
The 12 books on the longlist offer diverse perspectives on modern Indian history and culture
Zakir Hussain, TM Krishna discuss ‘unifying force of music’
August 15, 2021 12:56 am
This is the eighth edition of the annual lecture series by arts and culture festival Literature Live!, which was founded by the late Anil Dharker in 2010. Dharker, a noted journalist and writer, passed away earlier this year.
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Organisers allegedly cancel TM Krishna concert after a campaign by right-wing trolls
June 22, 2020 6:11 pm
He was called an “anti-national”, a “converted bigot” and an “urban naxal” by trolls. But Airports Authority of India, one of the organisers, has said the “postponement” is not because of trolls.
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