Despite the possibility of incessant rain, a group of excited Carnatic music rasikas assembled atThe Music Academy Madras to participate in the Raga Identification Competition for
rasikas on October 24.
This was jointly organised by Music Academy Madras, TAG group of companies
and Ramu Endowments.
The morning started with a breakfast hosted by R.T. Chari. Since there was no age limit , young adolescents competed with senior rasikas. People came from all over Chennai. There were some participants from Bangalore for the event.
The event culminated in an interactive session on Raga Bhava by Dr. Baby Sreeram.
The winners – Sivakumar Sankaran – lives in Luz area: Gokul – lives near Sri Karaneeswarar Temple and Srinivas Subramaniam is in Nanganallur.
Preethi Sukumaran lent a hand to curate the audio clippings from the Academy’s archives.
- Reported by Sumathi Krishnan
