by Rajan P. Parrikar First published on SAWF on July 10, 2000 Namashkar. The old melodies assembled under the Bilawal rubric come on the heels of the Todis and the Bhairavs in the matutinal parade of ragas. The Bilawals bring to mind those marvellous, hot breakfasts in India, whipped up by the ladies: soft idlis…
by Rajan P. Parrikar First published on SAWF on April 17, 2000 Last year (1999) I had posted a commentary on Raga Hameer on the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.indian.classical (RMIC) dotted with representative sound clips that, at the time, were prohibitively large for most readers to download. That logjam has now been overcome with the advent…
