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Via Shubha Mudgal’s site, I found this fantastic video of a Rajasthani song, Mhara Naina ra Tara, sung by the legendary Thumri singer, the late Shobha Gurtu, who was also the mother of percussionist Trilok Gurtu.
There are many more videos of Gurtu singing Rajasthani songs on youtube with the words, lovely and musical in themselves.

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Lately there has been an explosion of information on Carnatic music on the internet. I wish the Hindustani counterparts would catch up. Let me resort to cliche-maybe those from the South are more technologically competent and that’s why they are making full use of the net to talk about Carnatic music and create readily available [...]

I was feeling rather smug that I had escaped my usual once in two months cough, thinking sympathetically of my blogging pals 30in2005 and SilentOne who had fallen ill. Well, what do you know, I got a sore throat and the time I cough the most is at night, into A’s ear. This has put [...]

I came across the Raga Deshakshi for the first time today. It reminded me of the sound of the music that accompanies Odissi. I looked it up and apparently it is a rare raga and used in Kathakali. It is outrageously beautiful, reflective of any activity that can be slow and sensuous, prayer, dancing, making [...]

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