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Padmini Rao
An overview of aesthetics in Music The word ‘rasa’ has three primary associations of meaning: [1] Of being the object of perception by the sense of taste [2] Of being the essence of any thing or being [3] Of being something dynamic and not static...
Padmini Rao
The following article was published as part of a University Grants Commission Seminar. Change is the only constant in the world today. We see and experience it aroundus all the time. It is an all- embracing term and covers various aspects, such as the physical changes occurring around us in...
Padmini Rao
It was my final year of college; the Diwali vacations were approaching. ‘I want to celebrate this Diwali in a special way” I grandly announced to my family. “After all, this could be my last year as a student’ I said. “Oh are you planning on getting married next year?’...
Padmini Rao
It was a cold wintry evening in a small German town called Bottrop.I had just concluded with a Bhairavi thumri. The concert was a fund-raiser for the victims of the Gujarat earthquake- it was a concert organized by the Mayor himself, and the town hall was filled to capacity. I...
Padmini Rao
The Rasa Theory was the first systematized attempt to explain the cause-effect relationship between an intangible concept like ‘emotion’ with its tangible factors. It was expounded by Bharata Muni in his treatise 'Natyashastra'. The concept of 'rasa' originated and developed in the context of dramaturgy, since drama is a dynamic...
Padmini Rao
“ Music to me is a spiritual journey into the soul and I have felt this especially in the making of Krishn—Kanhai " The first strains of music for this collection awoke in my heart during a trip to Vrindavan, a holy confluence of spiritual vibrations, poetic imagery and the...
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