by Rajan P. Parrikar First published on SAWF on March 4, 2002 Part 1 | Part 2 Namashkar. We undertook a survey of Marwa and its purlieu in the monograph preceding this feature. Marwa and its neighbouring tract of Poorvi are major contributors of vespertine ragas to the Hindustani stream. The principal ragas…
by Rajan P. Parrikar First published on SAWF on March 4, 2002 Part 1 | Part 2 Knowledge of the lakshanas and gestural conduct of the basic ragas is key to understanding the more complex constructions. For the latter are essentially a combination or a subset of the fundamental behaviors, sometimes with a special sangati or…
by Rajan P. Parrikar First published on SAWF on September 3, 2001 Namashkar. In the comity of ragas, there is a certain class of denizens ordained to be “kshudra prakriti ke raga” by the long arm of tradition. They are so called because of their provenance in the folk idiom. A number of kshudra ragas…
by Rajan P. Parrikar First published on SAWF on April 26, 2001 Namashkar. A discourse on Raga Kedar was presented last year (2000) in Raga Kedar – A Perspective. We pick up the threads again and broaden that perspective, this time training our attention on Kedar’s liaisons. Familiarity on the part of the reader with…
