Todi (popularly known as ‘Miyan ki Todi’ or ‘Shuddh Todi’) — says musicologist Rajan Parrikar in his essay, The Empire of Todi-- is the convergence of a thaat, raga or raganga. He says: “This raganga ...
Music has been intrinsically linked to religious and spiritual practice in the Indian subcontinent. Rituals and congregational activities in places of worship or elsewhere have seen the all-pervasive ...
Going by its nomenclature, one would think the 45 melakarta which is placed in the Vasu chakra (wheel connoting ashtavasus or eight deities operating in Nature) in the third number, is an auspicious ...